‘Separate jails to be set up for drug addicts’

Online Desk  :   The government is planning to set up separate prisons for drug addicts in every division, said Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Thursday. He came up with the information at an event organised to observe the 'International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking'. "All law enforcing agencies and intelligence agencies are alert about new types of drugs and continue to take initiatives to prevent their spread." The home ministry, women and children welfare ministry and social welfare ministry have been working together to resolve the issue, adviser Jahangir added. "People from...

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Online Desk  :   The government is planning to set up separate prisons for drug addicts in every division, said Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Thursday. He came up with the information at an event organised to observe the ‘International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking’. “All law enforcing agencies and intelligence agencies are alert about new types of drugs and continue to take initiatives to prevent their spread.”

The home ministry, women and children welfare ministry and social welfare ministry have been working together to resolve the issue, adviser Jahangir added. “People from different backgrounds in the country are falling prey to drugs in many ways. The horrid side of drug dealing in the country is that women and children are being used in this heinous act. Hence, they get ensnared in criminal activities, and a large group of them become drug addicts.”

Jahangir Alam said that the current government is ‘committed’ to protecting the country and its people from the ‘gruesome grip’ of drugs.

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