(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) Alprazolam

(NOVEMBER-2025)

Alprazolam

Recently, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has busted a clandestine factory manufacturing alprazolam in Valsad under “Operation White Cauldron”.

About Alprazolam:

Alprazolam is a psychotropic substance under the Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act 1985.
This drug falls under the benzodiazepines class of drugs, and is a tranquillizing agent used in the treatment of anxiety disorders.
Benzodiazepines belong to the group of medicines called central nervous system (CNS) depressants, which are medicines that slow down the nervous system.
It is used to treat anxiety disorders, panic disorders, and anxiety caused by depression.
Key Facts about Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985
It prohibits any individual from engaging in any activity consisting of the production, cultivation, sale, purchase, transport, storage, and/or consumption of any narcotic drug or psychotropic substance.

Objectives:

To take measures for preventing, combating, and regulating operations relating to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.
To provide for the forfeiture of property derived from or used in, illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.
To implement the provisions of the international conventions on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and for all relevant matters.
To add or omit the list of psychotropic substances.