{"id":29584,"date":"2024-07-06T21:22:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T13:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=29584"},"modified":"2024-07-06T21:22:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T13:22:03","slug":"the-real-number-of-drug-addicts-could-surpass-half-a-million-people-in-malaysia-tangau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2024\/07\/06\/the-real-number-of-drug-addicts-could-surpass-half-a-million-people-in-malaysia-tangau\/","title":{"rendered":"The real number of drug addicts could surpass half a million people in Malaysia &#8211; Tangau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KOTA KINABALU: Tuaran MP Datuk Seri Wilfred Madius Tangau has highlighted that there are 145,526 identified drug addicts, but the actual number could surpass half a million in Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Referring to AADK data, he mentioned that 53,072 individuals have been imprisoned for drug-related offences, making up 70.4% of all inmates in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tangau also pointed out that the current prison capacity is 69,816 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While acknowledging the government&#8217;s positive intentions in amending the Drug Dependents (Treatment and Rehabilitation) Act, he raised concerns about certain shortcomings in the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the recent debate on the Drug Dependants (Treatment and Rehabilitation) (Amendment) Bill 2024 in Parliament, Tangau highlighted issues such as a maximum punishment of two years in jail and up to three strokes of whipping for violating treatment conditions in the community; excessive powers granted to AADK rehab officers; and an unjust RM5,000 fine imposed on parents of underage drug users who breach treatment terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government MP proposed sending the Drug Dependents (Treatment and Rehabilitation) 2024 Amendment Bill to a PSSC for consultations with civil society, academics, medical professionals, and NGOs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We cannot approve it in its current form,&#8221; Madius emphasised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: Tuaran MP Datuk Seri Wilfred Madius Tangau has highlighted that there are 145,526 identified drug addicts, but the actual number could surpass half a million in Malaysia. Referring to AADK data, he mentioned that 53,072 individuals have been imprisoned for drug-related offences, making up 70.4% of all inmates in the country. Tangau also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":29585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29586,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29584\/revisions\/29586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}