Ayu was only 12 when she had to stop school in Johor Baru due to her family’s financial problems. After her parents got divorced and could not afford to care for her, she lived with her grandmother.
By 15, she was taking crystal methamphetamine (ice or syabu). “It was a very difficult life,” she told interviewers for a Malaysian AIDS Council (MAC) report.
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