31 period of

Magsaysay A ward in the mid· five ye;;r.

1970s for his narcotics rehabili ­
tation. work. (Continued on Pa.1te 5)

.AGAINST DRUGS IS BEING LOS;Ii

SIN.A WEB! through an underground deal. •

er network closely associated

with heroin pushers operat.
\Hho111;h Jng in the area .
.\ nulh• 111Uh1 Mamphetamtnes, another
\ ll•ioua Jwrol u
d a l ly Ao "II
c•rt•1&1il'f'I
clrug of abuse is sold over
tlw counter at r11any city
11utho1·1Ues Nlltlhl phnrmacies in Colomhn nnd
t1tsk of dllllll111� 11 I I hi' Nuburbs.
lem are hclJ>I•·� . Snwrnl acfdids who 111111.•d to
rorcement, tn•11l111 rorurtt?rs at· Hikkaclnwu, Una
habilitation f111'lllll watuno a nd Gallo confirm_
l'a
��
Ironically \'t "'l·'I eel, thn e asy availab!llty of
th e most nl!l(hidtio
graphically i1> lh
Dru& addict's mother pleads .-- _ heroin In the area and reveal�
ed thnt ,;tocks
trict of GaJllJ I �� �
aro brou�ht
from major d lers oper atin g
i at Slave I•la�?•
'Keep my son in custody' !fochchikade
was first intr1111i1
Lanka through lit
at the Narigamu • ��f@. and
towc1·
near Ute
J11nctfo'n 11)
Kllan
:r�tah. Clock

coastal resort 111·1 �

Reporters who �� A mother tormented by her heroln addicted son has
pleaded that her only child be imprisoned with thie hope
<l l vl!IS deta11!4 or 1 w Mroln
gama and IJH. moVl'H J nto Hikkadu a twu
that at least thi. s would save her frOJll the- torture she
of week found thal �i is going through.
111ldlrls who Mvo 1;>ee�1
{he
deeplY.
Mro1n scene
��
ally number of locul 1nvolv111l All
ies, "l had to s pend at least 150 rupees a day to su stain
multiplied OVOl' II shi1'i' it began told reporters
-
my son's habit. When he could no t have the rocney to
en. that 11 pusher could reta in as
years co11�1 ,
mate of the addli
� buy his daily fix. he became violent, breaking �1p !furni-
uurh as 20 per cent o-C the
ture anct ueating havoc', t.he mother told the Fort
the
in the district I �� Magistrate S. I. Imam on FridaY.
lot•J.: as commission. A n on ..
police and healtli 1d11lct pusher could easly toP
Hen 20.year.old son had been :trrested by the Kolln­
for
ilk
in the area are nut �� r•itiya polkP with a pa ck e t of heroin which he had bet>u
o,ooo rup e es per month in
of the situation h·t earnings these addicts said.
snWrng 11t the tim e of his arrest.
al. ed to handle it. � INVESTMENT
nd The only hn .1 whkh � When µroducerl before l\Ir Imam, t\1e son 'plcnllcd
guilty and he was ordered to pay a fin e of Rs. 950, with a
Most o.l the pushers opera •
m has a psychiatric d where � sentence of six months rigorous i mprisonment sunpendl'1l ting in the Hikkaduwa area
heroin addi cts con be treat.. �� for eight years. are not addicts, unlike in
ed - the Unawalt
try h ospita l - cm
pyschia.
ly cater �
�
It wa� at this stage that the mother. aPpe11rt�ll lu
court- When the Magistrate asked her whether she could
Colombo, reporters
M!flly Pushers have laundered
found.

for two addicts at
last w ee k doctors
charge those who
goi ng treatment
ire under­
of heroin substitu
�one ran out.
·- It . is ,not on!."
.me while � pay the finP and take her sont home, the mother tol1l the money they earned through
d to dis. � 1he magistrate that she preferred her son to be kept in drug deaJing by i n v e sti ng tn
� fJJ·ison cu�t.cidy until he was cured of his habit. jllicit hotel development pro.
1ects and o�er tourism ori.
en stocks
metha·
�� She said "tllis is the only way I can be sure that ho will
get over this vicious habit ," to a shocked courthouse, ented industries in the area.
Even_ ;;t the time when his case was taken up, llY: One addict being rehabilii....
thadone the cour.t, her son appeared to be d rugged and the l\111gis- ' ted at the Galle hospital told

��
that iaroui-:o:t sto lrt' Galle :;-a trate askec the Prison· officers to take the boy to the reuorters that a friend of his
but ' · also v-ital g$ like �
prlson hospital and if furthe r cate was neede<l. to admit who like him was 11 touHst
Mamphetamines d' some �
him to the rehabilitation ward fot' drug addicts at the .tntide made more than 75,000
tranquilisers us ed the treat.. � Arigoda hospital.
�� rupees In two monthi; by seL
ment o! both psychiatric The Magistrate also ord<!red the boy to be imprison- ling half a kilogram o! heroin
patients as well
.have been out of
s addicts
�� ��
ea for thrc"' months in lieu of the fine. given to him by a
tourist who had managed
visiting
ock sirice
�� The mothE>r th('n left t.he court m tears as her son to
the beginnlng of
: Reporters found
�
was lt>d intc. the waiting black marh. smuggle it throtrgh the cus­

drugs could b
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