It takes around 4 hours to swallow 54 small packets of yaba for 41-year-old Josna Khatun. Each packet contains 50 pills.

As with most evenings, Nur Alom Madbar was hanging out at the Ganganagar Bazar in Shariatpur on August 10, when a group of men grabbed him and took him to a side alley.

Children’s substance abuse has increased exponentially in the ten years since 2012 -- an alarming development for the society.

The Department of Narcotics Control claimed to have busted a narcotics manufacturing laboratory and seized a consignment of two types of new drugs, including crystal methamphetamine, from the capital's Jhigatola area yesterday.

Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) is launching a campaign against drugs from today to protect the next generation from the threat, its Director General Jamal Uddin Ahmed says.