SINGAPORE - She took cannabis when she was 12 years old and for three years, attended drug parties and tried heroin which her boyfriend introduced to her. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - She took cannabis when she was 12 years old and for three years, attended drug parties and tried heroin which her boyfriend introduced to her.Ms Carol Wee, now 42, knows how easy it can be for the young to get ensnared by drugs because three decades on, the drug situation in Singapore, while much improved, has not gone away.
It was carried out between April 2021 and July 2022 and was representative of Singapore’s resident population by age, race and gender. She now volunteers at The Turning Point, a non-profit organisation that helps women overcome drug addiction. “While this percentage looks small, but when multiplied out across the population, this translates potentially to about 18,000 residents,” he said, adding that this finding was worrying.
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