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Tablets ‘pain-point' for cops cracking down on drugs
The New Indian Express
|May 25, 2024
Opioid tablets smuggled into city, sold to youth at low prices, say Chennai police
POLICE'S crackdown on drugs in the city is not limited to ganja, cocaine and meth; it also includes illegally procured opioid painkiller tablets and sedatives which seem to be the popular choice among adolescent boys and youth belonging to the low-income groups.
A conservative estimate showed that the city police, on an average, might be seizing at least 5,000 tablets like Nitrazepam and Tapentadol every month. An official statement by the Chennai City Police on May 21 said around 6,000 pain killer tablets were seized in the preceding week. Police arrested 21 people in the 19-21 age group in the last seven days and recovered 4,500 pills, some of them in bulk.
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