KILL DRUG ABUSE WITH RIGHT-BASED ACTION

摘要

Drug abuse has existed for a long time, but it was not as prominent an issue as it is now. The recent busting of a drug racket in the Sultanwind area of Amritsar, where over 188 kg of heroin and other drugs were seized shows how deep and serious the menace is.The proliferation and intense abuse of opioids like heroin, opium, poppy husk and pharmaceuticals, including tramadol, buprenorphine, tapentadol, dextropropoxyphene,diphenoxylate,codeine-based syrups and the latest chitta — the synthetic drug — was neither reported nor discussed much in the state of Punjab. Traditional drugs, mainly bhukki (poppy husk), that were considered harmless, have since ceded space to many new harmful and habit-forming new psychoactive substances (NPS), of which synthetic opioids pose a greater threat to human lives. The common man is perplexed by the emergence of these drugs on Punjab’s horizon.