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Page title: (title)This attribute controls the content of the <title> element. | Sri Lanka establishes National Dangerous Drugs Control Board |
Article description: (description)This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | The Sri Lankan Parliament enacted the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board (NDDCB) Act No. 11 of 1984, establishing a dedicated national focal point for drug control and international treaty obligations. The NDDCB replaced the informal National Narcotics Advisory Board created in 1973 with a statutory body responsible for coordinating demand reduction, supply control, research, and rehabilitation. The Act succeeded the colonial-era Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance of 1935, which a 1988 Library of Congress study described as "seriously outdated for a society in the 1980s." The new legislation arrived as Sri Lanka was transitioning from a traditional cannabis-and-opium drug landscape to one increasingly dominated by heroin — the UNODC noted heroin abuse had spread to Sri Lanka and India in the 1980s, countries "which had no previous experience with the problem." The NDDCB would go on to operate four residential treatment centres (Colombo, Kandy, Galle, Urapola) and serve as the primary data collection authority on drug use in Sri Lanka. |
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