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Teen gang culture in Bangladesh, locally called Kishor Gangs (Bengali: কিশোর গ্যাং), [1] encompasses the presence and activities of organized youth gangs primarily composed of teenagers involved in various criminal undertakings within urban areas of the country. The rise of these gangs presents significant challenges to law ...
800+ deaths [citation needed] The Bangladesh drug war or Bangladesh's war on drugs is an ongoing campaign against alleged drug dealers and users by the government of Bangladesh under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The extrajudicial killings of alleged drug dealers by the elite anti-crime unit Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and the police have been ...
Methamphetamine in Bangladesh. Methamphetamine in Bangladesh is an illegal substance that is often consumed in the form of Yaba. Yaba is a drug made by combining methamphetamine and caffeine. They are sold as colorful pills. [ 1 ] There are three forms of Yaba in Bangladesh, they are R-7, Controller, and Champa. [ 2 ]
Rational scale to assess the harm of drugs. Substance abuse prevention, also known as drug abuse prevention, is a process that attempts to prevent the onset of substance use or limit the development of problems associated with using psychoactive substances. Prevention efforts may focus on the individual or their surroundings.
This is a list of countries (and some territories) by the annual prevalence of opiates use as percentage of the population aged 15–64 (unless otherwise indicated).. The primary source of information are the World Drug Report 2011 (WDR 2011) and the World Drug Report 2006 (WDR 2006), [1] [2] published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Use of drugs by young people has increased by 50% since Covid-19 restrictions ended, according to new data. Charity The Mix has published research showing a third of the 2,000 people aged between ...
While HIV prevalence among male homosexuals and sex workers has remained below 1 percent, unsafe practices among drug users, particularly needle sharing, have caused a sharp increase in the number of people infected. Measurements at one central surveillance point showed that between 2001 and 2005, incidence of HIV in IDUs more than doubled ...
A health official said the island was moving to "control and contain" the growing use of drugs, especially among young people, but acknowledging shortfalls amid an increasingly severe economic crisis.