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Drug abuse's RM8 billion toll on govt: Staggering cost: PM laments revenue loss

THE government has had to fork out huge amounts of money to fight drug abuse, with a survey conducted in 2009 revealing that a staggering RM8.65 billion was used solely for this purpose.Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said based on Universiti Utara Malaysia's report on the economic impact...

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Main Author: Abas, Azura
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Published: The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad 2014
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spelling my.uum.repo.102682014-03-18T01:07:18Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/10268/ Drug abuse's RM8 billion toll on govt: Staggering cost: PM laments revenue loss Abas, Azura HG Finance THE government has had to fork out huge amounts of money to fight drug abuse, with a survey conducted in 2009 revealing that a staggering RM8.65 billion was used solely for this purpose.Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said based on Universiti Utara Malaysia's report on the economic impact of drug abuse, the government had to spend huge amounts on direct expenditure, covering enforcement and drug rehabilitation programmes as well as indirect cost covering health treatment, lost productivity and crime related costs involving 63,884 drug addicts. The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad 2014-02-19 Newspaper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/10268/1/Drug.pdf Abas, Azura (2014) Drug abuse's RM8 billion toll on govt: Staggering cost: PM laments revenue loss. (19 February 2014). in The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad, p. p. 4. http://www.nst.com.my/
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Drug abuse's RM8 billion toll on govt: Staggering cost: PM laments revenue loss
description THE government has had to fork out huge amounts of money to fight drug abuse, with a survey conducted in 2009 revealing that a staggering RM8.65 billion was used solely for this purpose.Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said based on Universiti Utara Malaysia's report on the economic impact of drug abuse, the government had to spend huge amounts on direct expenditure, covering enforcement and drug rehabilitation programmes as well as indirect cost covering health treatment, lost productivity and crime related costs involving 63,884 drug addicts.
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title Drug abuse's RM8 billion toll on govt: Staggering cost: PM laments revenue loss
title_short Drug abuse's RM8 billion toll on govt: Staggering cost: PM laments revenue loss
title_full Drug abuse's RM8 billion toll on govt: Staggering cost: PM laments revenue loss
title_fullStr Drug abuse's RM8 billion toll on govt: Staggering cost: PM laments revenue loss
title_full_unstemmed Drug abuse's RM8 billion toll on govt: Staggering cost: PM laments revenue loss
title_sort drug abuse's rm8 billion toll on govt: staggering cost: pm laments revenue loss
publisher The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad
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