Kohima, Aug 24 : Nagaland has topped the northeastern states in seizure of contraband drugs, which are flowing into the state through porous borders with Myanmar, Laos and Thailand.
This was revealed at the two-day Consultative Meeting of the Nagaland State AIDS Control Society (NSACS) at Dimapur, which concluded on Saturday last.
Speaking at the meeting, the members of NSACS said, the Excise Department and the Narcotic Department of Nagaland Police topped the North Eastern States in seizure of contraband drugs, which are flowing into the state through the porous borders with Myanmar in Noklak, Kiphire, Mon, Phek and Tuensang districts.
The most common contraband drugs smuggled into Nagaland are Opium, Brown Sugar, Heroin, Ganja and life saving drugs used as narcotics like Phensydyl, Spasmoproxivon and others are coming from Assam and Manipur.
Since the pharmaceutical life saving drugs is cheaper and affordable than the contraband drugs, the uses of these are more.
With no mechanism to keep check at the porous border, the flow of drug trafficking is unabated despite all efforts of limited manpower of the Excise Department and Narcotic personnel of the State Government and only a few cases are only detected out of huge smuggling consignments, they opined.
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