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Rising drug abuse? UN watchdog blames India

Rising drug abuse? UN watchdog blames India - The Times of India

TNN, Feb 25, 2010, 04.40am IST

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NEW DELHI: The United Nations narcotics watchdog, International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), has blamed India for the rising drug abuse in its neighbourhood, particularly in Bangladesh and Bhutan.

Worse, the UN agency says India is the primary source of injectible drugs such as pethidine and morphine widely abused in these countries. In fact, more and more addicts in these countries are shifting to injectible narcotics abuse.

"The widespread abuse of pharmaceutical preparations containing narcotic drugs such as codeine is an ongoing problem in Bangladesh. Such preparations are smuggled into that country from India," the report says.

The INCB report also gives details of seizure made in these countries. In 2008, drug enforcement agencies in Bangladesh seized 53,239 bottles containing codeine-based syrup and 226 ampoules containing pethidine and morphine. The same year, agencies seized 554 tablets containing codeine. But this was far less than the huge seizure of 70,000 tablets made in 2007.

A record seizure of Buprenorphine, a widely abused injectible drug, of 14,782 ampoules, was made by law enforcement authorities in that country in 2008. These too were smuggled into Bangladesh from India.


Pharmaceutical preparations containing benzodiazepines are among the drugs most widely abused in Bhutan. More than 1,060 tablets containing chlordiazepoxide and 240 strips of tablets containing nitrazepam were seized in 2007 in Bhutan and the trend continued in 2008. The suspected origin of the seized drugs was India, according to the INCB report.

Besides smuggling drugs to neighbouring countries, the report says India has become one of the main sources of drugs sold through illegal internet pharmacies. Orders placed with such pharmacies are often dispatched to buyers in other countries through courier or postal services.

The UN agency asked India to increase its vigilance in detecting the misuse of courier and postal services to smuggle controlled substances out of the country. It said the majority of clandestine shipments of controlled substances detected in India were destined for Australia and countries in North America and Europe.
 
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25 February 2010


A new United Nations report has revealed that narcotics smuggle via the internet is taking place in a big way in India. The agency has urged the authorities to increase its vigilance in detecting the misuse of courier and postal services and stop the rising drug abuse in its neighbourhood.

New Delhi: India has emerged as a major source for illegal drugs trade on the internet with narcotics smuggled via the country's courier and postal services to the rest of the world, a new UN report said on Wednesday.

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A police officer displays seized drugs in Jammu July 28, 2009. India has emerged as a major source for illegal drugs trade on the internet/ Phot credit: Mukesh Gupta/ Reuters

"Courier and postal services have become a common means of smuggling drugs out of India," the report released by the International Narcotics Control Board revealed.

Seizures of banned substances to make drugs from places like New York and cities in France and the UK highlight India's big role in the international drug trafficking racket, the report said. Some shipments were meant for Australia as well.

"These are new (internet use) trends emerging in India and we are trying to crack down on the traffickers and closely coordinating with foreign agencies on this," Ish Kumar, a top official of India's Narcotics Control Bureau, told Reuters.

Illegal firms in the guise of software companies allow transactions of banned pharmaceutical preparations to be made over the internet, the report says.

Indian authorities shut down three internet pharmacies in 2008 after they were found to be selling psychotropic substances to buyers in the US.

"There is a large criminal network which needs to be broken," Cristina Albertin, a representative of the UN's office on drugs and crime said.

The UN body has urged Indian authorities to prevent the use of internet to sell drugs, UN officials said.

India has an estimated 73.2 million drugs and alcohol users but the actual numbers could be much higher and only a wider study could provide a correct estimate, officials say.

[Reuters India]

Drug abuse in its neighbourhood

The United Nations narcotics watchdog, International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), has blamed India for the rising drug abuse in its neighbourhood, particularly in Bangladesh and Bhutan.

Worse, the UN agency says India is the primary source of injectible drugs such as pethidine and morphine widely abused in these countries. In fact, more and more addicts in these countries are shifting to injectible narcotics abuse.

"The widespread abuse of pharmaceutical preparations containing narcotic drugs such as codeine is an ongoing problem in Bangladesh. Such preparations are smuggled into that country from India," the report says.

The INCB report also gives details of seizure made in these countries. In 2008, drug enforcement agencies in Bangladesh seized 53,239 bottles containing codeine-based syrup and 226 ampoules containing pethidine and morphine. The same year, agencies seized 554 tablets containing codeine. But this was far less than the huge seizure of 70,000 tablets made in 2007.

A record seizure of Buprenorphine, a widely abused injectible drug, of 14,782 ampoules, was made by law enforcement authorities in that country in 2008. These too were smuggled into Bangladesh from India.

Pharmaceutical preparations containing benzodiazepines are among the drugs most widely abused in Bhutan. More than 1,060 tablets containing chlordiazepoxide and 240 strips of tablets containing nitrazepam were seized in 2007 in Bhutan and the trend continued in 2008. The suspected origin of the seized drugs was India,
according to the INCB report.

The UN agency asked India to increase its vigilance in detecting the misuse of courier and postal services to smuggle controlled substances out of the country. It said the majority of clandestine shipments of controlled substances detected in India were destined for Australia and countries in North America and Europe.
 
Excuse me but at the end of the page there is this notification, did u see it or in your haste to post forgot it??

Source : The Times of India

This news is based on the shitty Toilet Media TOI. Or do u find TOI very credible now??
 
^^^read the article first then try to comment. Do ou read the word Jamati anywhere?

It's a known fact Bangladesh is used as a traffic country to transfer drugs. We had been saying for a long time that India should close its factories producing phensydyl(or similar drugs) adjacent to the border. But when when India has as much ignorant citizens as above who listen to whom? Maybe it was their intention in the first place.
As we know smugglers aren't killed by the BSF.
 
Excuse me but at the end of the page there is this notification, did u see it or in your haste to post forgot it??

Source : The Times of India

This news is based on the shitty Toilet Media TOI. Or do u find TOI very credible now??


Don't you know how it works yet?. ToI is credible when it publishes something to their taste and "ToI lolzzzzz" when it publishes something that they don't like.
 
Indian phensydyl in Bangladesh is nothing new. It stared when phensydyl was banned as part of national drug policy in early 80's.


This was demanded by the Jamaat Govt last year,

Dhaka to Delhi: crack down on drug factories near border
Dhaka, Sep 27, IANS:

Bangladesh has urged India to crack down on factories that make the banned Phensedyl syrup near the border. Two million bottles of Phensedyl were seized last year.

Popular with drug addicts, the banned syrup is being smuggled by organised drug peddlers and individuals visiting India. Its consumption and smuggling have increased in the recent months, New Age newspaper said Monday.

The syrup, the ingredients of which include codeine phosphate and ephedrine, has been smuggled into Bangladesh, according to the narcotics control department.

In March, Bangladesh Rifles handed over to its Indian counterparts a list of 32 Phensedyl factories on the Indian side of the border and sought action against them. But BDR sources claim that steps were yet to be taken to address the issue.

Senior border guard officials of both sides, who met here Sunday, expressed concern over continued smuggling of different types of drugs, including heroin and Phensedyl, said a Bangladeshi official who attended the meeting.

Bangladesh Rifles Deputy Director General, Brigadier General Obaidul Haque, told New Age: "We have provided the Indian side with a list of the Phensedyl factories on the other side of the border marking their locations, so that the Indian authorities can take action in order to save their youth as well as ours from the curse of drug abuse ...but powerful cartels control the drug smuggling."

Bangladesh authorities believe the actual quantity of Phensedyl smuggled into the country during the period was five times the quantity seized.


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