Health workers in Manipur can't see how fast people are switching to injecting prescription painkillers, or get guidance on treating them.
People who use drugs in Manipur, their families and counsellors
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How this problem came to be
- Found1 sourcethehindu.com
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The problem, broken down
- Who it hurts
- Counsellors, rehabilitation centres and hospitals in Manipur, and the families of people dependent on Tramadol and Tapentadol.
- The moment
- A young person arrives at a rehabilitation centre with an infection from injecting crushed painkiller tablets, and staff have no protocol for it.
- What people do today
- Officials and counsellors rely on seizures, deaths and admissions to spot the trend, and seizure data on these painkillers is not readily available.
- Why it's unsolved
- The drugs are legal medicines sold through pharmacies, so misuse is scattered across prescriptions and informal sales, and no one brings together what pharmacies, hospitals and rehab centres are seeing.
- What solved looks like
- A shared, anonymous reporting tool for pharmacists, hospitals and rehabilitation centres in Manipur to log suspected misuse and complications, showing trends by district, with up-to-date treatment guidance for dependence, withdrawal and injection injuries.
Evidence
Every claim is tied to the source it comes from- 1Counsellors and anti-narcotic officials say drug users are shifting to opioid analgesics available as prescription painkillers from heroin and other narcotics made costlier by the ethnic conflict.
- 2A vial of heroin costs almost ₹5,000, while a strip of Tramadol or Tapentadol costs between ₹40 and ₹400, according to reports in the local media.
- 3A youth died at a drug rehabilitation centre in Imphal; he had reportedly been injecting crushed tablets of Tapentadol, an opioid analgesic thrice as potent as Tramadol.
- 4Police and drug enforcement agencies said data on seizures of opioid analgesics sold or ferried illegally in the State were not immediately available.
- 5Counsellors said hospitals and rehabilitation centres need updated guidance on dependence, withdrawal and complications associated with misuse and injection.
Builders still need to know
- Would pharmacists report suspicious requests if the tool protected them and their customers' identities?
- Which agency, health or narcotics control, should own the data, and how is it kept from being used against patients?
- What treatment guidance for Tapentadol dependence already exists that could be adapted for Manipur?
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What the source says, in short
Counsellors and anti-narcotic officials say drug users are shifting to opioid analgesics available as prescription painkillers from heroin and other narcotics made costlier by the ethnic conflict. A vial of heroin costs almost ₹5,000, while a strip of Tramadol or Tapentadol costs between ₹40 and ₹400, according to reports in the local media. A youth died at a drug rehabilitation centre in Imphal; he had reportedly been injecting crushed tablets of Tapentadol, an opioid analgesic thrice as potent as Tramadol. Police and drug enforcement agencies said data on seizures of opioid analgesics sold or ferried illegally in the State were not immediately available. Counsellors said hospitals and rehabilitation centres need updated guidance on dependence, withdrawal and complications associated with misuse and injection.
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