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BSS-14
PREVENTION-DRUGS-ABUSE
More vigilance against drug abuse needed to protect youths
RAJSHAHI, Feb 17, 2019 (BSS) – Terming the drug abuse as one of the most
dangerous issues in the present society speakers at a discussion here
observed that all the law-enforcing agencies should expedite vigilance
against the crime.
They also stressed building a social resistance against drug abuse and its
illicit trafficking aiming to protect people, particularly the young
generation, from drug addiction.
The discussants came up with the observation while addressing a seminar
styled “Narcotics Control Law-2018 and its Enforcement” at conference hall of
Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) in Rajshahi city yesterday.
CJM Court organized the seminar in association with divisional and
district offices of Department of Narcotics Control (DNC). Judicial and
Executive Magistrates, officer-in-charges of different police stations,
representatives of BGB and RAB and lawyers joined the meeting.
Metropolitan Session Judge AHM Ilias Hossain and Additional Director of DNC
Zafrullah Kazal addressed the meeting as chief and special gusts respectively
with Chief Judicial Magistrate Mehedi Hassan Talukder in the chair.
Judge Ilias Hossain said around 80 percent of the drug addicts are of the
age group of 15 to 30 in the country and that is why there is no alternative
to taking effective steps to check drugs abuse and its illicit trade.
He says the rising crime, health hazards, murder and suicide are the major
consequences of abuse of drugs like yaba, heroin, phensidyle, ganja and
pathedine.
The law enforcing agencies should put in their level best efforts to combat
the social menace and the community participation coupled with family and
social contribution is an urgent to this end.
Zafrullah Kazal stressed arranging trilateral meeting between Bangladesh,
India and Myanmar so that drugs from India and Myanmar could not enter
Bangladesh.
He said a drugs-free society as well as university campus must be built at
any cost to protect people, particularly the young generation, from deadly
aggression of the drugs.
BSS/AH/FI/ 1545 hrs