Drug-Free Tamil Nadu

A drug-free state is built on supply enforcement, demand reduction, and economic alternatives — pursued simultaneously, not sequentially. Trafficking networks are dismantled through inter-agency intelligence sharing across state police, customs, and narcotics control. Addiction is treated as a public health crisis requiring clinical intervention, not a moral failure requiring punishment or social stigma.

Within his first days as Chief Minister, Vijay ordered the immediate closure of 717 government-run TASMAC liquor outlets within a 500-metre radius of schools, places of worship, and bus stations — translating ideology into enforcement on day one. Anti-drug protection zones are established around every school and college. 65 dedicated anti-narcotic police stations across 37 districts are exclusively tasked with dismantling local distribution networks.

Anti-drug clubs in every school and college build demand-side resistance from adolescence. A statewide network of de-addiction centres, integrated with primary health centres, provides clinical support to those who seek recovery. TASMAC reform — phased, accountable, with revenue-replacement budgeted in advance — separates state finances from alcohol dependency, so the government is no longer structurally incentivised by the same revenue that drugs and alcohol destroy communities to generate.