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Newsbrief:
Indian
Government
Blinks
in
Face
of
Threatened
Drug
Shortage
2/11/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/374/india2.shtml
As
DRCNet reported last week, medicinal drug wholesalers and retailers
in India had threatened a total halt to sales of psychoactive drugs --
ranging from Valium to morphine and beyond -- beginning Thursday because
of campaign of harassment and arrests by the country's newly zealous Narcotics
Control Board (NCB). But according to a report Friday in the Hindu
Business Line, anxious patients and drug manufacturers now have a three-week
reprieve after the pharmaceutical industry, trade associations, and retail
pharmacists won an assurance from the NCB that the agency would forward
their concerns to the Finance Ministry and that appropriate changes would
be made in the country's drug laws.
"Top officials of the NCB
have assured us that they would recommend to the Finance Ministry to amend
the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and definite action
on this would be taken in the next 10 days," said JS Shinde of the All-India
Organisation of Chemists and Druggists.
The temporary reprieve came
as shortages of medicines were being reported across the country.
Beginning two weeks ago, pharmacists and drug retailers began moving to
shut down sales of psychoactive medicines in an effort to pressure the
Indian government to get the narcs to back off. Wholesalers had begun
refusing to purchase the drugs from pharmaceutical companies in protest
of NCB harassment, and existing stocks were running low. But pharmacists
and drug retailers have set February 25th for a new drug strike if the
Indian government fails to move on their complaints. Stay tuned.
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