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One drug offender caught every four minutes


KUALA LUMPUR: One drug offender is arrested every four minutes, leading to many lives being destroyed and close to RM150mil of economic potential lost.

A total of 129,604 people were detained for various drug-related offences in 2021, working out to about 355 a day, or one every four minutes.

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