RAJSHAHI, June 26, 2018 (BSS)-Political and social commitment is very
important to combat drug abuse and illicit trafficking to protect people and
the young generation in particular.
Around 80 percent of the drug addicts are of the age group of 15 to 30 in
the country. So, there is no alternative to adopt measures against drug abuse
and its illicit trafficking.
At present the injecting drug users were creating grave concern among the
government and non-government organizations and these people were at high
HIV/AIDS risk.
The observation came at a post-rally discussion held at Nanking Dabar hall
in observance of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit
Trafficking- 2018 today.
District Administration and Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) jointly
organized the programme discussing ways and means on how to free the city
from the curse of abusing of drugs.
Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) supported the event. Commissioner of
Rajshahi division Nur-Ur-Rahman and Deputy Inspector General of Police
Khurshid Hossain addressed the discussion as chief and special guests
respectively with Deputy Commissioner SM Abdul Kader in the chair.
Commissioner-in-Charge of RMP Suzayet Islam, Superintendent of Police Md
Shahidullah and Additional Director of DNC Zafrullah Kazal spoke as special
guests.
During his concept paper presentation, Lutfor Rahman, Deputy Director of
DNC, said maladjustment, rising crime, health hazards, murder and suicide are
the major consequences of abusing of drugs like heroin, phensidyle, ganja,
pathedine and tranquilizers.
He said the law enforcing agencies alone are not capable of combating the
social disease, but community participation coupled with family and social
contribution is very important to this end.
Nur-Ur-Rahman said forging social resistance has become indispensable to
uproot the crime as it’s being adjudged as a grave concern in the society.
He called for arranging trilateral meeting between Bangladesh, India and
Myanmar so that drugs from India and Myanmar don’t enter Bangladesh as our
country isn’t producer of drugs but being used as consumer as a whole.
He added that a drugs-free society must be built at any cost to protect
people particularly the young generation from deadly aggression of the drugs.
Rahman urged the community people to extend their wholehearted cooperation
towards law enforcing agencies with authentic information about the drugs
traders and traffickers so that they could be brought to book.
He said drug trafficking is a social and criminal problem that has
transformed in recent years into a major threat to the health and security of
people and regions. Drug dependence is a disease, not a crime. The real
criminals are the drug traffickers.