The National Anti-Drugs Agency says students are being paid RM50 to push drugs in schools, causing an increase in the number of addictions.
KUALA KEDAH: Students are being hired as drug pushers in schools for a mere RM50, the National Anti-Drugs Agency (Nada) said, adding that many of them have also turned into users.
Kedah Nada director Nazer Mohammad Mustafa said this could be a likely cause why there was an increase in the number of students testing positive for drugs.
“For students, RM50 is a lot of money. So syndicates are using the students to sell drugs,” Sinar Harian quoted Nazer as saying.
Nazer said that school children aged between 13 and 17 are easily influenced by the extra pocket money, adding the student pushers get their peers to try out the drugs so that they would be addicted.
Sinar Harian reported that statistics showed out of the 374 students nabbed for drug abuse in 2015, 70% of them were hooked on methamphetamine. Last year’s figures revealed that 80% of the 344 students caught were hooked on the same drug.
“Currently there are 415 students between the ages of 13 and 15 in a rehabilitation centre in Kulim,” Nazer told Sinar Harian.
Nada has now enlisted the help of the Village Development and Security committees as well as mosques to curb this menace.
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