‘Getting addicted is not as straightforward as consuming a substance’


PETALING JAYA: The following sounds untrue. Three people can spend a day smoking up drugs in a room, but at the end of it, only one or two will develop an addiction.

The above example flies in the face of what many Malaysians have been led to believe about drugs and substance abuse, but science and history have proven the case to be true.

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