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14 Feb 2012

India Releases National Policy on NDPS

The NDPS policy will serve as a guide to various ministries and organizations and re-assert India's commitment to combat the drug menace in a holistic manner.

The central government of India has come out with a 'National Policy on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances' (NDPS), under which the private sector companies will be allowed to produce alkaloids from opium.

 

At present alkaloids from opium are produced only in Government Opium and Alkaloid Factories (GOAFs).

 

According to Manoj Tongra, an expert in this field, the key features of the new policy include: The private companies may get license to manufacture codiene etc; psychotropic substance control via online tracking on pharma trade; tracking of opium cultivation via satellite in India, India is legal and safe producer of opium in world and medicinal value is high; and India have lowest consumption of morphine as potent analgesic and use in

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