Crackdown intensified on new addictive substances, illegal drugs

Authorities have intensified their crackdown on new addictive substances and emerging drug-related problems, anti-drug officials said on Wednesday.

The traditional and new drug problems have intertwined with each other, and the number of new types of drugs and new forms of crime are increasing, featuring anesthetic and psychotropic drugs to substitute for narcotics or taking multiple narcotics at the same time, said Zhao Zhongchen, deputy director of the narcotics control bureau of the Ministry of Public Security.

Special operations have been launched to target these problems. Police have recently busted a number of inter-provincial criminal gangs that sold controlled narcotics and psychoactive drugs online and used psychedelic drugs to trespass and threaten personal safety, said Zhao.