Poverty and neglect driving kids to drugs

Left high and dry: Kids as young as 11 are getting involved in the drug business due to troubled backgrounds.

KUALA LUMPUR: They were poor, their parents had divorced and the eldest son, a 16-year-old, found himself as head of a household which included his two younger siblings.

Money was hard to come by. To make ends meet, the eldest got all three of them into the drug business.