Introduction
Punjab’s proximity to the Pakistan border and established trafficking routes make narcotics a multidimensional threat. Drug trafficking affects individual health, border security, organised crime and social stability.
Drug trafficking as an Internal Security Challenge
- Cross-border trafficking: Heroin and synthetic drugs enter through border routes, increasingly using drones.
- Narco-terror nexus: Drug proceeds can finance terrorist networks, while traffickers use organised criminal chains.
- Governance impact: Money laundering, corruption and local distribution networks weaken law enforcement.
Drug trafficking as an Public Health Crisis
- Addiction damages physical and mental health, particularly among youth.
- Families face indebtedness, crime, social breakdown and loss of productive human capital.
- Overdose, unsafe injecting practices and inadequate rehabilitation burden health services.
Way Forward
- Improve BSF-police-NCB coordination, anti-drone surveillance, border intelligence and financial investigations.
- Expand prevention, counselling, de-addiction, rehabilitation and livelihood support.
Conclusion
Punjab needs a combined security and public-health strategy that disrupts drug supply networks while reducing demand through treatment, rehabilitation and community participation.
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Punjab Drug Trafficking: Security and Public Health