drug addiction

Sobering Pinkfish tragedy: healthcare workers call for drug harm reduction over punishments

Blacklisting substances could lead people to find ‘deadlier’ narcotics as new ones are emerging frequently

Systemic change, private-public collaboration key for Malaysia’s addiction treatment – Prem Kumar Shanmugam

With RM1 bil spent annually on prison costs for drug offences, it is time to ask if there is any meaningful change

Private sector in the dark over govt’s drug decriminalisation plans, say experts

Health professionals urge broader engagement with relevant stakeholders ahead of reforms to decriminalise drug use to ensure effective implementation of initiative

Focus on retaining, increasing drug addiction specialists, expert tells govt

Prem Kumar Shanmugam sounds alarm on shortage of local drug addiction specialists amid high relapse rate

High time for govt to review Dangerous Drugs Act, focus on addicts’ rehabilitation: Ramkarpal

Former deputy law minister Ramkarpal Singh has urged the Home Ministry to review sections under the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 to facilitate the Health Ministry’s treatment-based rehabilitative approach for drug addicts.

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