Dazed and confused: drugs use among the country’s teens is at a high

Stay in school, don’t do drugs
Stay in school, don’t do drugs

Drug use among students is at a high, with 1,256 testing positive for narcotics in the first half of 2017.

The students were tested at their schools, and not just on algebra and history, but they had their urine tested too. Times, they are a changing.

The National Anti-Drugs Agency (AADK) director told reporters from New Straits Times yesterday that the students testing positive were new users, and that the numbers were up from last year.

Those students who tested positive were then given drugs counseling, although there were no figures on the bounce rate back to drug use.

The northern states of Kedah had the highest amount of, um high, kids, followed by Kelantan, arguable the country’s most religious state.

 




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