Hard drugs on wooden table
(COLOMBO)- A Sri Lankan college rugby coach is suspected to have provided players and students with a pain killer that is widely abused by drug addicts seeking a high, investigators have found out.
A senior official close to the investigation said that the suspect was arrested in Sri Lanka’s central hill capital of Kandy on Wednesday along with two grams of heroin and 4,000-plus narco pills that has now been established as pain relievers.
The official quoted a regional medical officer Palitha Bandara Subasinghe as saying just 50 milligrams of the pill is administered to a patient and anything beyond that is pure abuse.
Drug addicts are known to take at least 150 milligrams of the drug for extreme intoxication, the official said.
He quoted Subasinghe as saying that continuous use of it can cause nerve disorders and joint dislocations.
Police investigations have revealed that the 22-year-old suspect is a skilled rugby player and had played for the Army rugby team for some time.
He had been working as an apprentice soldier in the Army Service Corps, but had had not returned for duty since June last year..
The police suspect that the arrested rugby coach has also provided these pills to school students in the region.
