Medical shops warned against selling medicines to drug abusers

Fearing that youths might take to commonly available medicines for intoxication as Madurai City Police has been tightening the noose around ganja peddlers, Commissioner of Police J. Loganathan has warned medical shops against selling those scheduled drugs without proper prescription from doctors.

Fearing that youths might take to commonly available medicines for intoxication as Madurai City Police has been tightening the noose around ganja peddlers, Commissioner of Police J. Loganathan has warned medical shops against selling those scheduled drugs without proper prescription from doctors.

Addressing an awareness meeting on drug abuse for those running pharmacies, courier and parcel services, here on Thursday, he said that over 6,000 kg of ganja has been seized in the last three years in the city. Similarly, 416 ganja cases have ended up in conviction. Properties worth ₹1.41 crore of the ganja peddlers have been frozen.

Similarly, stringent action is being taken against smuggling and selling of banned tobacco products.

In this backdrop, the drug abusers would look for commonly available medicines and abuse them for intoxication.

Hence, the medical shops should not sell any medicine, especially sedatives, to people without presciption. “Besides, no medicine should be given for prescriptions given by doctors long back,” he added.

He advised the medical shops to put up notice boards with regard to this instructions to make it clear to the people.

Mr Loganathan also asked them to maintain records of stock and sale of medicines in tact.