Hyderabad, April 9 -- The digitalisation, real-time monitoring and reporting of high-risk Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) is soon going to address the critical issue of substance abuse, diversion of life-saving drugs to the grey markets and their duplication.

According to a report published in Telangana Today, the proposal to have a real-time online portal to track these drugs, which include anti-cancer, anti-microbial, pain-killers, sedatives, vaccines and other psychotropic substances, will soon be operationalised.

The report states that the Central Drugs Standards Control Organization (CDSCO) has already given a go-ahead for the digital initiative.

From the manufacturing of those drugs till their delivery at the m...