Pubdate: Wed, 27 Jun 2007
Source: Hindu, The (India)
Copyright: 2007 The Hindu
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"DRUG ABUSE A SECURITY CONCERN"

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.

Border areas vulnerable

"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.

Major transit point

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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