PETALING JAYA: Drug addiction has seen a rise of nearly 30% from the previous year and the top three most abused drugs were amphetamines, cannabis and opiates, said the Home Ministry.
The ministry’s Deputy Secretary-General (Security) Datuk Abdul Halim Abdul Rahman, who was representing Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, said these were findings from statistics of arrests conducted by the police and the national anti-drugs agency.
