QUOTING a research study, the New Nation on Friday reported that nearly six million people of the country are drug addicted who spend about Tk 800 million every day to purchase killer drugs. Department of Narcotics Control (DNC), assigned with the responsibility to control drugs, has no specific data about the number of addicts or how drugs peddled place to place. Six million — the number of drug addicts – is too large a population. Most of the addicts are youth and the potential change-makers of the country. While the country is in the middle of “demographic dividend” phase, the government is passionately busy over lauding themselves and the energetic brains are becoming morally disgraced, physically weak, financially sick, and ultimately incompetent to take the challenge of age for the reluctance of the governmental agencies in controlling drugs. As a nation all our potentials are based on youths and drug addiction of a large number of youths is simply destroying the future.
According to a WHO survey, in the capital city 79.4 percent of the drug addicts are male and 20.6 percent are female of 18 to 30 age brackets. Another survey stated that 64.8 percent of the drug users in the country are unmarried, while 56.1 percent are either students or unemployed. The survey pointed how youths become drug addicts and found that 95.4 percent are smokers; 85.7 percent got into drugs under the influence of friends and peer groups and 65.8 percent are addicted to various codeine-containing cough syrups.
As per the report, more than 100,000 people are directly involved in illegal drug trade and supply where women and children are used as secured drug peddlers to evade law enforcers. Of the narcotics, heroin is among the deadliest, Yaba is a “fashionable” drug, antihistamine syrup and phensidyl are the most popular for availability and very recently ‘Hookah’ or ‘Shisha Culture’ has become a favorite among youths male and female, mostly from affluent families.
The large drug kingdom is not secret to law enforcing agencies rather in some cases law enforcers are seen as beneficiary of the business and helpers to kingpins. In the capital city, several powerful politicians are allegedly involved with drug business while ruling party men in bordering districts are the main importers and distributors of contraband drugs from the bordering countries. To ensure daily supply of illegal drugs, several hundred dens were established in the countries along the borders. Despite friendly relations with those nations, the government has failed to destroy the dens. And it is also imperative to make the border security force — BGB —accountable to stop drug consignments through the border.
Failure to control drugs peddling or import from bordering countries will poison the lifeline of the nation and make the nation demoralized, sluggish and addicts — slowly poisoning the younger generations.
According to a WHO survey, in the capital city 79.4 percent of the drug addicts are male and 20.6 percent are female of 18 to 30 age brackets. Another survey stated that 64.8 percent of the drug users in the country are unmarried, while 56.1 percent are either students or unemployed. The survey pointed how youths become drug addicts and found that 95.4 percent are smokers; 85.7 percent got into drugs under the influence of friends and peer groups and 65.8 percent are addicted to various codeine-containing cough syrups.
As per the report, more than 100,000 people are directly involved in illegal drug trade and supply where women and children are used as secured drug peddlers to evade law enforcers. Of the narcotics, heroin is among the deadliest, Yaba is a “fashionable” drug, antihistamine syrup and phensidyl are the most popular for availability and very recently ‘Hookah’ or ‘Shisha Culture’ has become a favorite among youths male and female, mostly from affluent families.
The large drug kingdom is not secret to law enforcing agencies rather in some cases law enforcers are seen as beneficiary of the business and helpers to kingpins. In the capital city, several powerful politicians are allegedly involved with drug business while ruling party men in bordering districts are the main importers and distributors of contraband drugs from the bordering countries. To ensure daily supply of illegal drugs, several hundred dens were established in the countries along the borders. Despite friendly relations with those nations, the government has failed to destroy the dens. And it is also imperative to make the border security force — BGB —accountable to stop drug consignments through the border.
Failure to control drugs peddling or import from bordering countries will poison the lifeline of the nation and make the nation demoralized, sluggish and addicts — slowly poisoning the younger generations.
