Drug Addiction in Bangladesh Part-II
Hospital surveys show that average age of drug addicts is 22. The addicts are students, professionals, businessmen, laborers, rickshawallahs and from other professions.
Drugs Trafficking
Bangladesh is a transit country for drugs produced in the Golden Triangle and, to a much lesser degree, the Golden Crescent. Reports from the Indian Narcotics Control Bureau also indicate that heroin is smuggled from India to Bangladesh through the porous Indo-Bangladesh border. There were seven seizures of heroin hidden in fresh vegetable shipments from Dhaka into the UK in 2003 (INCSR 2003). Dhaka airport and the seaport of Chittagong appear to be preferred exit points. Heroin seizures have been about 30-40 kg per year during the past four years except during 2000 and 2002. During 2003, law enforcement agencies seized 34 kg heroin, 1,906 kg ganja (cannabis herb) (ARQ 2003), 28,288 litres of Phensidyl®, 1,276 ampoules of pethidine and 2,898 ampoules of Tidigesic® (INCSR 2003). Nonetheless, the smuggling in, diversion and abuse of pharmaceuticals originating from India is considered to be the largest drug problem in Bangladesh.
Reasons for Drug Addiction
In brief the reasons determined through research, include : 1.Curiosity and excitement through use 2.Despair and frustration among the youth 3.Some patients are addicts because they try to follow the western culture of drugs and enjoyment of life 4.All drug addicts in our country are afraid of social stigma more than the threat from the law 5.Poverty 6.Continuous failure in works 7. Easy access to drugs; 8. Unemployment problem/economic insolvency; 9. Surrounding atmosphere; 10. Estranged in love; 11. Mental stress due to family problem.
Drug addicted in percentage
1. Opium: 2. Heroin; 3. Phensidyl; 4. Tidijesic; 5. Pethidine; 6. Cannabis: 7. Ganja; 8. Chorosh; 9. Bhang; 10. Yaba; 11. Vayagra; 12. Sleeping pill: 13. Tranquilizer; 14. Seduxene; 15. Diazapam; 16. Dexpotent;
Impact in personal and social life
The impact of drugs has some stages, which effects in personal and social life: 1. Initial stage; 2. Pre-mature stage; 3. Mature stage and; 4. Dangerous stage; 5. Economical & Social stage; The body relaxes and the mind feels fresh after taking drugs. If an addict cannot take it, peevish temperament occurs and he doesn´t wish to work or even talk. S/he feels fever, headache, itches in his body and sometimes vomiting also occurs. Most of the students of this group are frustrated and unhappy in their study life. The most common drugs used in Bangladesh are stimulant drugs. More and more people are beginning to use them - middle aged people, old people, housewives and young girls, University’s student, even high school students (especially in English Medium student). These teens are ignorant about drugs. Some of them can not tell the difference between stimulants and marijuana. At first they put the drugs into drinks. They don't even know which drugs are dangerous. It's easy for teenagers to get the drugs. They can buy them from friends who don't think it is wrong to sell them, or they can get them from some foreigners. They buy drugs called "Speed, tiger, yaba" they knew it’s a type of Drinks or tablets which give refreshment to study and mind, which they don't think is dangerous. They don't realize that it really is dangerous. There are a larger number of young using drugs. According to the police- "In the last 3 or 2 years many more teens have been arrested for using drugs than ever before". A drug abuser can undergo different stages of tasting apart from normal lifestyle in personally and socially or nationally; 1. Drug abuse can decay normal human senses through deep feelings; 2. It creates different types of excitement both in the body and mind; 3. Finally, it makes a person passionate to drugs; 4. In the long run the user has to increase the dose day by day; 5. Rapid weight loss of addicted person. Avoidance of any reply to your queries about weight loss . Get answers from them and keep under observation 6. Uncertain temper, loss of appetite, lack of sleep, hand tremors. 7. Regular onset of fever at a fixed time. Watery eyes.
