City Desk :
Police officials, development activists and other stakeholders at a discussion unequivocally called for more modern and adequate safe treatment facilities towards the drug addicts for their rehabilitation.
They mentioned addiction can tear families and destroy lives.
The people who inject drugs and suffer from addiction need a great deal of professional help to overcome this disease. Drug addiction and HIV/AIDS are interlinked. So, there is no alternative to concerted efforts.
The observation came yesterday in a view-sharing meeting titled “Treatment and Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts” at conference hall of Ashokta Punarbason Sangstha (APS) in Rajshahi.
Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) and APS jointly organized the meeting discussing ways and means on how to rehabilitate the drug addicts through providing them with proper treatment.
RMP Commissioner Shafiqul Islam addressed the discussion as chief guest with APS Executive Director Abul Bashar in the chair.
Deputy Director of Department of Drugs and Narcotics Control Lutfor Rahman, RMP Additional Deputy Commissioners Shirin Akhter Jahan, Kamrun Nahar and Ibney Mijan, Assistant Commissioner Ifte Khaer Alam and Officer-in-Charge of Rajpara Police Station Aman Ullah also spoke.
The discussants demanded launching opioid substitution treatment through methadone method here for the drug addicts for sake of their quick recovery.
APS Executive Director Abul Bashar told the meeting that people, especially the young generation and students of different educational institutions including a number of females, have become addicted to different kinds of injecting drugs and heroin, phensidyl and yaba.
These contraband items are sold at different spots and shops of the city and a large number of drug addicts gathering at those places regularly to buy the items and involve them in drug abuse, he added.
On the other hand, to treat the drugs addicts, there is only one government and five private drug rehabilitation centres in the city.
Police officials, development activists and other stakeholders at a discussion unequivocally called for more modern and adequate safe treatment facilities towards the drug addicts for their rehabilitation.
They mentioned addiction can tear families and destroy lives.
The people who inject drugs and suffer from addiction need a great deal of professional help to overcome this disease. Drug addiction and HIV/AIDS are interlinked. So, there is no alternative to concerted efforts.
The observation came yesterday in a view-sharing meeting titled “Treatment and Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts” at conference hall of Ashokta Punarbason Sangstha (APS) in Rajshahi.
Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) and APS jointly organized the meeting discussing ways and means on how to rehabilitate the drug addicts through providing them with proper treatment.
RMP Commissioner Shafiqul Islam addressed the discussion as chief guest with APS Executive Director Abul Bashar in the chair.
Deputy Director of Department of Drugs and Narcotics Control Lutfor Rahman, RMP Additional Deputy Commissioners Shirin Akhter Jahan, Kamrun Nahar and Ibney Mijan, Assistant Commissioner Ifte Khaer Alam and Officer-in-Charge of Rajpara Police Station Aman Ullah also spoke.
The discussants demanded launching opioid substitution treatment through methadone method here for the drug addicts for sake of their quick recovery.
APS Executive Director Abul Bashar told the meeting that people, especially the young generation and students of different educational institutions including a number of females, have become addicted to different kinds of injecting drugs and heroin, phensidyl and yaba.
These contraband items are sold at different spots and shops of the city and a large number of drug addicts gathering at those places regularly to buy the items and involve them in drug abuse, he added.
On the other hand, to treat the drugs addicts, there is only one government and five private drug rehabilitation centres in the city.
