Saifuddin: Govt mulls treatment instead of punishment for drug addicts

The Home Ministry’s proposed law would offer treatment for drug addicts rather than punishment, said Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

Saifuddin said the law, if proposed and passed in Parliament, would give priority to rehabilitation and treatment of drug addicts within a legal framework and would uphold efforts for a transformation of the prisons and detention centres...