PATNA, June 27 -- Governor Arif Mohammad Khan on Thursday said there was a growing need to check the menace of drug abuse as much and as fast as possible and it was important to go after the big fish involved in it. "In the world, there is both elixir and poison. Our effort should be reduce poison as much as possible. I was under the impression that the problem is less in Bihar, as I came after spending five years in a state where it had turned alarming. It is the mother of all evils and we must do all that it is required to check it," he added. He was speaking at BIT Patna on the occasion of International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, organised by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Bihar region. He also administered the oath to all to stay away from drugs. The governor said there was nothing more important than health and drug abuse impacted both physical and mental health to cripple the affected person to such an extent that they made life miserable for parents as well as society. "The smugglers have a modus operandi of using kids as suppliers in top institutions also and I experienced it in Kerala," he said, exhorting the NCB to intensify the campaign with strategy to check the menace and the Raj Bhawan would be with it. Samastipur MP Shambhavi Choudhary said prevention was better than cure and it was important for the society to fight against the evil as one, as its impact was never individual. NCB regional director Abhishek Anand said the Centre was committed to eradicating the evil of drug abuse and Bihar was working in that direction....