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History of Department of Narcotics Control

 

Introduction to the Department of Narcotics Control

The use of narcotics in the socio-economic, cultural and historical context of Bangladesh is very ancient. The British East India Company started its first opium cultivation and opium business in India for commercial purposes and appointed a decree and some officers for it. The British produced opium in India and made huge money by exporting to other countries including China, and introduced opium shops in this country. In 1857, the opium trade was established under the government control of the opium and the Opium Act was amended in 1878 and the Opium Department was established. Then revenue from marijuana and alcohol started and in 1909 the Bengal Excise Act and Bengal Excise Department were established. In addition to opium, alcohol and cannabis, the Dengerous Drugs Act-1930 was formulated by the government in 1930 when various types of drugs made by opiate and cocaine were made. Similarly, in 1932, the Opium Smoking Act-1932 was formulated and the Dangerous Drugs Rules-1939 was formulated in 1939 for regulating opium consumption. After the establishment of Pakistan in 1947, TheProhibition Rules-1950 was created in 1950 to control the drinking of alcohol for the Mumlmanans. In 1957, the Opium sales Rules-1957 was made. After that in the sixties, the Bengal Excise Department was named after the Department of Excise and Taxation and handed over under the Ministry of Finance.

After the emergence of Bangladesh through the Great War of Liberation, in 1976, the Excise and Taxation Department was re-assigned to the National Board of Revenue under the reorganization of Directorate of Narcotics and Liquor. In 1982, production and marketing of coded mixed cough syrup, alcoholic beverages, tablets, syrup etc. were prohibited. In 1984, the ban on opium and dead cigarettes was prohibited and in 1987 the cane cultivation was stopped and all the cannabis shops were lifted in 1989.

Until 1989, the main goal of the Directorate of Narcotics and Liquor was to collect revenue from the country's narcotics. In the 1980s, drug misuse and illegal trafficking in the world increased alarmingly. In the end of 1989, the Narcotics Control Ordinance, 1989 was issued at the end of 1989 to combat the misuse of narcotics and illegal trafficking, to develop public awareness about the harmful effects of drugs and to rehabilitate drug addicts in Bangladesh. Then on January 2, 1990, the Narcotics Control Act 1990 was formulated and in place of the Narcotics and Liquor, the Department of Narcotics Control was established under the President's Secretariat in the same year. Then, on September 9, 1991, the Directorate was deputed under the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Department of Narcotics Control, under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. With regard to the import of illegal drugs in the country, drugs, drugs and other industries, including imports, transport and use control, proper drug testing, ensuring the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts, planning and implementation of the prevention program for the creation of mass awareness about the bad effects of narcotics, other international organizations including the United Nations Creating intimate work-related relationships with The main responsibility of the Directorate to create resistance against the drug nationally and internationally is through the development of the drug.

 

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