Anti-drug agency plans to rehabilitate 155 hotspots nationwide


JOHOR BARU: A pilot project launched last year by the National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK), which has been successful in reducing the number of areas with a high number of drug addicts, may be expanded to the 155 hotspots nationwide.

Its director-general Datuk Seri Zulkifli Abdullah said the agency was looking at modelling a programme after the pilot project which is slated to end soon. The project involved the participation of 15 agencies.

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