NEW DELHI, July 7:
Representatives of BRICS member nations will evaluate the drug abuse situation in their respective countries and chalk out strategies at a meeting to be inaugurated by Home Minister Rajnath Singh here tomorrow.
The BRICS heads of drug control agencies working group meeting will evaluate the drug abuse situation in the member countries and analyse the legislations of BRICS member states as well as devise modalities to share the best practices of enforcement and demand reduction.
The meeting comes two-days after the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) told the Home Minister that drug addicts in Punjab are gradually getting attracted to medicine-based concoctions following stepped-up clamp down on peddling of traditional narcotics.
At a review meeting yesterday, the NCB chief Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar apprised Singh about the changing drug abuse pattern in Punjab and stressed that the “increase in street price of opiates due to less availability as a result of increased enforcement activities by drug law agencies are making addicts shift to pharmaceutical preparations like Tramadol, Buprenorphene etc”.
The BRICS, an association of five major emerging economies comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, had started as a forum for future economic cooperation and for reforming Financial Institutions. The seventh BRICS summit was held in July 2015 in Russia and India shall be hosting the eighth BRICS summit in October in Goa.(PTI)
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