Despite close vigilance of the Border Guard Bangladesh and other law enforcing agencies, several lakhs of stimulating Yaba tablets are entering the country everyday from Myanmar.
Intelligence sources told the news agency that some powerful international criminal and financial networks were controlling drugs supply-chain within Bangladesh.
Yaba is a combination of methamphetamine (a powerful and addictive stimulant) and caffeine.
Yaba tablets typically are consumed orally. Users place the Yaba tablet on aluminium foil and heat it from below. As the tablet melts, vapours rise and is inhaled.
People who use Yaba face the same risks as users of other forms of methamphetamine: rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, and damages small blood vessels in the brain that can lead to stroke.
Chronic use of the drug can result in inflammation of the heart lining. Overdoses can cause hyperthermia (elevated body temperature), convulsions, and death. Yaba addicts also may have episodes of violent behaviour, paranoia, anxiety, confusion, and insomnia.
Yaba are coming to Teknaf of Cox's Bazaar from Myanmar through the River Naf mainly by small boats, fishing boats, cattle carrying trawlers and small cargo ships. The drugs traffickers have been using a 14-kilometre-long route between Teknaf and Shahpuri Dweep.
Sabrang union, located in the southern part of Teknaf upazila, near Maungdaw township of Arakan state in Myanmar, is one of the main points used by the traffickers.
The sources said nearly 100 drug paddlers were involved in supplying Yaba tablets across the country especially capital Dhaka from Teknaf.
Each dealer supply 10,000 to 20,000 Yaba tablets in each consignment, said an intelligence officer, adding that each drug dealer sends five to six consignments every months depending on demands.
Acting on a tip-off, a joint team comprising members of RAB-1 and department of Narcotics Control raided a Chinese restaurant in Uttara and arrested drug dealer Abdus Sakur Mahmud, 44, at about 7:00pm on Thursday.
The law enforcers searched the bag kept on his lap and found around 18,000 pieces of Yaba tablets.
This was the second biggest Yaba recovery by RAB in terms of quantity as earlier the elite force recovered around 1.20 lakh pieces Yaba tablets from Gulshan in 2007 and arrested a manufacturer.
Source: New Age
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