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1200 drug patients cured in Khulna in five years
KHULNA. Mar 6: The Regional Centre for Cure oi Drug Addicts providing treatment to the addicts has cured 1200 patients during the last five years, reports UNB
Of the cured. 735 addicts took outdoor ir. umr.uL anil 465 were admitted to the centre, officials said.
According to the records. 50 per cent of the patients are heroin addict. 20 per cent phensichie addict. 10 percent hemp. 5 per cent alcohol. 5 per cent nicotine and 10 per cent other addicts.
Of the addicts. 50 per cent are businessmen. 40 per cent students. live per cent servicemen and five per cent others.
An analysis of records of the centre revealed that 50 per cent of the addicts took to drugs motivated by friends. 10 per cent became addict due to frustra-Cian for failure in love. 10 per cent for l.unily feud, 20 per cent
for other reasons and 10 per cent were amateur addicts.
Superintendent of the centre told the news agency that the number of actual drug addicts is several times higher. A minor percentage of them come to the centre for treatme.it.
Only five beds tn the centre is quite inadequate foi treatment of addicts in the divisional town, he added.
/Kanther report from Kushfla savs : Sharp rise in d ug addicts in’the district town and its adjoining areas created concern among the peace loving people.
Local people complained that the addicted youths take the drug at secluded points of Thanapara. Kataikhana. Kadanitala. Majampur. Rali-gate Crossing and BIDC market in the town on the very nose of the Law enforcers.
To collect money for drugs, the addicts often engage in ex-
tortion of toll, mugging and robbery.
The youths in the rural areas are learnt to have addicted to drugs like opium, morphine, sedative tablets and alcoholic spirit.
Another report from Shariatpur adds : Although the num ber of drug addicts in Shariatpur. Madaripur. Gopalganj, Ra-jbari and Faridpur districts is on the rise, nothing enough Is being dune to crackdown on drug traffickers.
According to a recent survey conducted by Shariatpur De-ve.lnpmeuf. OreanLaatinn (DOS), a local NGO. there are over one lakh drug addicts of 15-24 age group in the districts.
The survey has ma rked Shariatpur as the most vulnerable district, as the number of drug addicts here is rising at an alarming rate.
The drug addicts, mostly school students, unemployed youths, bus and truck drivers and workers, commit various serious crimes like mugging and burglary to collect money for buying drugs.
They are mainly addicted to drugs like phensidyle. heroin, pathedrine. ganja and rectified spirit.
And these items are openly sold in a section of homoeopathy shops around educational institutions, bus stands, ferry ghats and railway stations of the districts.