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PASIR PUTEH: Being placed in a drug rehabilitation centre may not be easy for recovering addicts, but it offers hope for positive change and a brighter future.
IPOH: Cemeteries, abandoned buildings, oil palm plantations, and overgrown grassy areas see the most arrests of drug addicts.
BATU PAHAT: Police have recovered a stolen lorry tanker in Melaka within two hours after the vehicle went missing near Yong Peng about 40 minutes from here.
KLUANG: A 37-year-old man was arrested for slashing a Singaporean man with a parang at Kampung Tengah, here.
YANGON: More than a hundred shaven-headed men pour out of their Yangon hostel around 6am for a day of weightlifting, karate drills, dancing and Buddhist prayer -- drug rehabilitation, Myanmar style.
PUTRAJAYA: Drug addicts who are determined to quit narcotics will not face legal action if they voluntarily report to the National Anti-Drugs Agency (AADK) for rehabilitation, says its Director-General Datuk Ruslin Jusoh.
SINGAPORE: In what he described as the lowest point in his life, a cyber-security specialist stole a few thousand dollars from a savings account meant for his daughter so that he could keep gambling.
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KOTA KINABALU: Two suspected addicts, a man and a woman in their 20s, were arrested by Penampang police in a drug bust that led to the seizure of methamphetamine valued at around RM16,000.
SINGAPORE: A recalcitrant drug addict knew his 14-year-old son was also taking drugs, but instead of helping the boy, he gave him drugs from his own stash when asked.
KOTA KINABALU: A man and a woman in their twenties were arrested after police seized over half a kilogramme of substance believed to be syabu from them.
KOTA KINABALU: Police have arrested 333 drug dealers and addicts in the first seven months of this year.
THE proposed amendments to the Drug Dependent (Treatment and Rehabilitation) Act 1983 will no longer criminalise drug addicts but will treat them as patients instead.
KOTA KINABALU: An anti-narcotics operation at a known drug hotspot in Sabah’s east coast Tawau district saw police rope in four male drug users, one of them a suspected dealer, since Saturday (July 13).
This overachiever went from corporate high flyer and academician to drug addict and jailbird.
KUALA LUMPUR: Negative stigma surrounding drug addiction must be changed so addicts can receive treatment and professional support, says Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
INMATES who have completed their sentences or paid their fines for drug abuse offences need to be supervised by the National Anti-Drugs Agency (AADK) for two to three years, says the Deputy Home Minister.
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