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“Drug abuse a security concern”

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Kolkata: “Drug abuse amounts to violation of the basic human right of living with dignity,” Justice Shyamal Kumar Sen, Chairperson, West Bengal Human Rights Commission, has said.

He was speaking at a seminar organised by the Narcotics Control Bureau here to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

“As the international border areas remain more vulnerable to trafficking, the problem needs to be tackled at an international level,” he said.

Describing drug abuse as a security concern that was destroying society as a whole, Mr. Sen called for a wider campaign to save the youth from the menace. “But it is not the duty of school students but the Government departments to carry them out, for which they must be provided proper infrastructural facilities,” he added.

M.K. Singh, the former Director General, Narcotics Control Bureau, said that India’s geographical location between the Golden Crescent on the west and the Golden Triangle in the east made the country a major transit point in the smuggling of drugs.

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