Health Minister: Drug addicts need treatment and rehabilitation not imprisonment

Drug addiction is a chronic disease that requires treatment and rehabilitation, not detention or imprisonment, said Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa. According to her, prison is not a place to treat drug addicts and this can impede them from functioning as productive members of society.

“Prison is not the last resort for educating individuals involved in drug abuse,” she said when officiating the Addiction and Forensic Psychiatry Symposium 2023 here today. Read more…

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