Sri Lanka has launched a voluntary drug rehabilitation program with vocational training support to help people addicted to narcotics recover and reintegrate into the workforce, the Commissioner Genera ...

A recovering ketamine addict has warned youngsters against the drug, saying it 'destroyed his life' and can do more damage in two years than 20 years of heroin. Liam J, 37, became addicted to ketamine ...

Additional members of the Initiative include an executive director, cabinet secretaries, and senior administration leaders, some with deeply personal ties to the addiction crisis who are committed to ...

Sri Lanka, Oct. 17 -- Ten Centers will be established across the country where Drug addicts can voluntarily undergo rehabilitation, Justice and National Integration Minister Harshana Nanayakkara said.

Colombo, Nov. 17 (Daily Mirror) - Claiming that the government was not expecting to arrest and imprison drug addicts, Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala yesterday urged parents and guardians of ...

KOTA TINGGI, Jan 18 (Bernama) -- The Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) has proposed that narcotics addiction rehabilitation centres (PUSPEN) be gazetted as special prisons for drug addicts ...

Drug addicts should be given intensive help to turn their lives around instead of being sent to jail, according to a major review commissioned by the Government. It would mark an end to the so-called ...