Before we effectively deal with drug addiction, we must get a clearer picture of the problem as it stands in the current social context. The development of technology and the transformation of Malaysian society have caused the effort of the government, public institutions and parents in solving the drugs abuse among the young break off. The development of technology is allowing the increase of production of drug, the opening of new trafficking routes, and new markets. But, we still need to solve the issue because the young, the teenagers and the students is our country hopes. “Pemuda harapan bangsa, pemudi tiang negara”, they are the person who going to replace us in the future. Hence, we can’t let the students continue intoxicated with drugs.
We are facing the uphill battle to free Malaysia from drugs and solving the problem is not easy because we are the human, nobody can control ours though and behavior. The drugs addiction statistic among these few years similar with us playing roller coaster, sometime was moving up and drop after a few second. It is same with the number of drugs addiction increase and drop in the following year and increase again.
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Yes, there is a price to pay in terms of law enforcement, development assistance and drug treatment is not cheap. But if the government takes the foot off and brake now, the costs will be much higher in terms of human lives drug-related violence, greater burden on health care budgets to cure the drugs addiction people and the peaceful of society. Hence, the government has implemented a number of programs aimed to turn into drug free country.
To reduce the number of drug addiction among the Malaysian is to wipe out the illegal drugs supply on market. The customs authorities play a crucial role through its dual mandate of facilitating formal trade while also preventing illicit trade. Lack of transparency and corruption at the borders are also among the issues associated with weak enforcement by the authorities. There had been enforcement gaps in combating smuggling and those harsher penalties need to be implemented to deter illegal traders from this unlawful activity. Government had enforced the law of death penalty for drug trafficking in 1983 due to stop black market of drugs supply in Malaysia.
The development of technology and application had increasing the government’s difficulty to detect and control the trading of illegal drugs. The buyers connect with the suppliers online and the money usually bank in into third person’s account before the drugs delivered and the delivery is either done in person or buy leaving them at an agree place. National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK) enforcement and security director Zainudin Abdullah said the traffickers were employing the students to become drug pushers through social media platform such as WeChat, WhatsApps and Facebook due to get the new generation of “customer” in school. The target of the trafficker is the children or students who come from the poor family by paying them attractive salary. It’s harder for the authorities to trace drug dealing activities involving children and even if caught the enforcement action is subject to various child-related regulations and receiving the treatment and rehabilitation.
According to ASEAN Drug Monitoring Report 2015, there were about 5,521 drug dependents who received treatment and rehabilitation. Starting from 2010, NADA undertook efforts to transform their existing rehabilitation programs to an open-concept approach with the setting up of the Cure & Care 1 Malaysia Clinic and C&C 1 Malaysia Clinic in July 2010. The open-concept approach provides drug users or drugs addicts with the opportunity to receive treatment voluntarily at local community service centers without facing legal judgment or prosecution. It allow relapsed users to seek treatment while continuing with their life and career, while also encouraging drug users with the motivation to change, to seek treatment voluntarily with no legal consequences. The government realized that transformation of the rehabilitation program was not effective to reducing the drug abuse among Malaysian because the statistic of drugs addiction continual increase. Hence, the cooperation between the government, media and public is very important to save our child, our hopes and our inheritor.
National Anti-Drug Agency (NADA) implements four programs of treatment and rehabilitation namely Rehabilitation in the Institution, Rehabilitation through career, Open-Access Services and Rehabilitation in the Community. According to ASEAN Drug Monitoring Report 2015, there were about 5,521 drug dependents who received treatment and rehabilitation. Starting from 2010, NADA undertook efforts to transform their existing rehabilitation programs to an open-concept approach with the setting up of the Cure & Care 1 Malaysia Clinic and C&C 1 Malaysia Clinic in July 2010. The open-concept approach provides drug users or drugs addicts with the opportunity to receive treatment voluntarily at local community service centers without facing legal judgment or prosecution. It allow relapsed users to seek treatment while continuing with their life and career, while also encouraging drug users with the motivation to change, to seek treatment voluntarily with no legal consequences. The government realized that transformation of the rehabilitation program was not effective to reducing the drug abuse among Malaysian because the statistic of drugs addiction continual increase.
We all have a responsibility as parents, friends, co-workers and good citizens to ensure that people we know and love do not run their lives with drugs. We have the responsibility to help them, to advice them and guiding them enter the correct pathway of life. The parent as a GPS for the child and guide them since they are young. Good guidance at home is not means that you control over your child’s behavior. If you child not following the direction that you guide, please don’t give up. People can’t escape from doing wrong. Try to find the new pathway to return them into the correct life journey.
As a peer group, we can help people who may had problem or feel left out by society by accompany and listen to them. Let them express their unhappiness and stress. This able to prevent them take drug for temporary forget all the unhappy things. People in particular are susceptible to images no matter in movies, videos, or on TV. Hence, media could play a more informative role in explaining the dangers of drug use.
Let us work together to improve and decrease the statistic of drug abuse. Continue to deeply research the factor due to better understand, prevent and control addiction, particularly drug abuse, in order to save people from the misery that is causes.
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