Yhoshu for effective implementation of state drug policy

Nagaland Assembly Speaker Vikho-o Yhoshu today emphasized on the effective and careful implementation of the substance abuse prevention and treatment policy of the state government.

Yhoshu was speaking at a function organised here on the occasion of International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

"Drug day is a reminder that drugs continue to be an issue that plague societies in different ways and that we all have to be continuously vigilant with regards to its impact and harms they cause to persons, families and friends and to societies at large," he said.

Expressing that use of drug is as old as age of humans, he said drugs and medicines are meant to help sick people, but in substance abuse, people use drugs to alter their brain function in harmful and dangerous ways.

"Drug abuse is now an emerging health hazard for the world community and no part of the world today is free from the curse of drug trafficking and addiction," he said.