Women become addicts by overdosing tranquillisers

The staffers and volunteers of NHCC disclosed that the wholesale market of medicines in Juria Bazar had virtually become a paradise for the women who used tranquillisers and they are the regular buyers.

In experts' opinion continuous use of any tranquillisers without any doctor's prescription is called drugs addiction.

A fellow who works in the wholesale market of Juria Bazar told this scribe that 50 to 100 women, most of them belonging to the middle class including working women would go there daily to purchase syringes of tranquillisers and pills.

He said that this practice had been continuing for the past many years and he himself was surprised that no body took notice of the wrongdoing which was perilous to the lives of women.

Selling tranquilliser as part of addiction business has converted into a separate lucrative business in the wholesale market of medicines and a narrow lane in the market called 'Katchi Galli' is notorious in this regard, from where these women could purchase such type of medicines.

"Not a single government agency, neither excise police nor health ministry has ever taken notice of this wrongdoing which has been continued for the past many years," he said.