India and the United States have agreed to collaborate on curbing the trafficking and manufacturing of illicit medicine. This settlement comes towards the backdrop of the Drug Policy Framework for the twenty first Century signed by each international locations.
Representatives of India and the United States recognized three principal areas the place each international locations will collaborate in the direction of stopping illicit drug manufacturing and commerce.
Three pillars
Dr. Rahul Gupta from the Office of the National Drug Policy instructed PTI, “What we’ve really worked on over the last couple of days is the three pillars. One is the counter-narcotics and the work to do to disrupt the networks of traffickers and producers of illicit drugs.”
He was referring to a two-day assembly between the 2 international locations which concluded on Thursday this week.
The second space recognized within the US-India Counternarcotics Working Group (CNWG) was lowering drug demand and the hurt induced by the consumption of medication.
Dr. Gupta defined, “The second one is to work on drug demand reduction and harm reduction. That includes looking at not only how we help people who are suffering from addiction but prevent addiction in the first place, and at the same time working on things like workforce shortages.”
The third space the place each international locations can be working intently is making certain that there’s a pharmaceutical provide chain after which a thriving pharmaceutical trade, in keeping with Dr. Gupta.
Illicit medicine are a giant drawback within the US
He famous that almost 100,000 Americans die due to the consumption of medication. However, unlawful consumption of narcotics and medicines isn’t a lot of an issue in India, Dr. Gupta stated.
It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Home Affairs has destroyed unlawful medicine price Rs. 12,000 crores just lately. Destruction of drug networks is a precedence for the Indian authorities.
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