KUALA SELANGOR: Drug addiction cases in this country have increased by 27% in the first six months of this year to 118,820 addicts compared with 93,534 addicts reported in the same period last year.
The National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK) director-general Sutekno Ahmad Belon said this upward trend is worrying as more than half of the number involved youths and teenagers.
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