Yaba In Bangladesh

Yaba Addiction In Bangladesh

By Dr.fourkan Ali

Drug addiction has been a common aspect for the youth of this generation. This drug addiction is gradually destroying the future of the youth. Today, this is an open secret to everybody but there is no strong initiatives taken to prevent people from taking illegal drugs which are harming them. The most recent form of addiction towards drugs is that of Yaba. And suddenly it got popular among the young generation without people from other age groups not having any knowledge about this. It initially spread among higher class and higher middle class people. Now the youth generation, instead of building their future, is destroying it with a poisonous drug called Yaba.

The use of Yaba had been sweeping through the youth populace in the Dhaka city’s posh neighborhoods until the recent hauls. It began to spread at an alarming pace since the launch of a massive clampdown on heroin and Phensidyle dealers about a few years ago. More and more youths in areas like Gulshan, Banani, Baridhara and Dhanmondi switched to the deadly pills with heroin and Phensidyle becoming less available.

Yaba, Thai for ‘crazy medicines’, however has been the drug of choice among a section for quite a long time now. But as most of the pushers were from families having close connection with the past governments they could not be tough on them, leading to its steady spread.

Yaba is said to have been originally used by Hitler who gave it to his soldiers to combat against fatigue, heighten endurance and elevate the mood. This Nazi lineage has given the drug street credibility like nothing before it. While most of the ingredients to make it can be purchased legally, and produced within a couple of hours in a casserole dish, there are no such known drug labs in Bangladesh. Yaba is a mixture of methamphetamine, caffeine and at times heroin.

There are umpteen drugs being used in Bangladesh, Heroin, Cocaine, Ecstasy, Yaba, Phensydil, Crystal Meth, and many more. The problem is that the number of users is rising at a frightening rate. Worse, these drugs have found mass appeal in almost all age groups. From people in their early teens to the fifties, a major portion of society has got aboard the drug train, a train that runs not on oil or coal, but the newest drug in town, Yaba.