Push for a drug-free society


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 16 Feb 2003

The Government has vowed to use war-like strategies to rid the country of the drug menace by 2015. In this first of a two-part story on the illicit drug problem, WONG LI ZA talks to former drug abusers while DEVID RAJAH lays out the magnitude of the situation. 

THE eldest of five siblings,Hafizi Harun grew up in a strict family environment. He was also emotionally weak and easily influenced by friends.Being unhappy at home,he ran away a few times. 

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