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Introduction to Narcotics Control Directorate

Drug use is very old in the socio-economic, cultural and historical context of Bangladesh. The British East India Company started the first opium cultivation and opium trade in India for their commercial interests and issued a farman and appointed some officials. The British made huge money by producing opium in India and exporting it to other countries including China and started opium shops in the country.

After the rise of Bangladesh through the Great War of Liberation, the Excise and Taxation Department was restructured and placed under the National Board of Revenue under the name of Narcotics and Liquor Directorate in 1976. In 1982, production and marketing of codeine-laced cough syrup, some alcoholic health tonics, tablets, syrups etc. was banned. In 1984, opium and the death penalty were banned, and in 1987, the cultivation of cannabis was stopped, and in 1989, all cannabis shops were closed.

Directorate of Narcotics Control under the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The main responsibility of the Directorate is to prevent the flow of illegal drugs in the country, to import legal drugs used in medicine and other industries subject to customs duties, to plan and implement prevention programs with the aim of creating widespread public awareness, and to develop resistance against drugs nationally and internationally by creating close working relationships with the United Nations and other international organizations. .