Students using drugs as exam stress busters - police

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EXAM FEVER: About 23,000 high school students will begin their exams in Sharjah next week. (Getty Images)

Students are subjecting their lives to risk by using prescription drugs to see themselves through their exams, the Sharjah police warned yesterday.

The National newspaper quoted Brig Yousef Al Naqbi, the director general of Sharjah Police criminal investigation department as saying that some students pay as much as AED5,000 (US$1,400) for potentially lethal amounts of medication to stay awake during revision or to reach a “high mood” during exams.

About 23,000 high school students will begin their exams in Sharjah next week.

Brig Al Naqbi said doctors and pharmacists were committing “medical malpractices” out of “negligence or greed for money”, the daily added.

Sharjah Police’s anti-drugs department and the Ministry of Health have jointly launched a campaign to curb the practice, Brig Al Naqbi explained.

“Our law is very strict on divergent medical practitioners because they are putting residents’ lives in danger. We would not allow any transgressor to continue practising in this country.”

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