Govt to amend Drug Dependants Act to reduce prison overcrowding

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KUALA LUMPUR: The Home Ministry will amend the Drug Dependants (Treatment and Rehabilitation) Act 1983 into the Drug and Substance Abuse Act to place ...

: The Home Ministry will amend the Drug Dependants Act 1983 into the Drug and Substance Abuse Act to place drug addicts in National Anti-Drug Agency rehabilitation centres instead of prisons, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.

“The Home Ministry will table this law in the near future, and now we are working out the details,“ he said during the question-and-answer session.

 

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