Kathmandu, June 19: The government is planning to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking by organizing various programmes for a week across the country.
The Day is being marked under the slogan: ‘listening to youth and children is the first step to help them grow healthy and safe’ this year. The day is marked on 26 June every year.
During a press meet organized by the Home Ministry today, Joint Secretary Kedar Neupane said the government would mark the Day organizing various programmes from 20 to 26 June.
Drug abuse is a problem afflicting not only some individuals but the entire society. So, all should make concerted efforts to battle this social ill, he added.
Similarly, Drug Control Bureau Chief of Nepal Police, Dhiru Basnyat, said the increase of drug abuse is the rise of crime. All sides’ efforts and cooperation were essential to curb it, added the police officer, arguing that only police action was not enough to this regard.
During the observation of the Day, awareness-laden documentaries would be screened in the movie halls across the country; interactions held, and awareness programmes conducted at school and colleges.
A morning rally would be organized on 26 June. On the same day, an interaction would be organized at Nepal Academy.
It is said Nepal has 142,000 people addicted to severe drugs (narcotics). The number of drug abusers rises by 11.67 percent every year. Among them, 10 percent are females.
On 7 December 1987, the UN General Assembly had decided to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on 26 June every year. RSS
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