Drug addiction cases up by 27pct in first 6 months of 2023

Drug addiction cases have increased by 27 percent 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.