Afiq (not his real name) grew up watching his brothers abuse drugs. When he turned 18, he started consuming drugs so that he could "belong".
For the next 30 years, try as he did, he could not kick the drug habit. Instead, his ways eventually led his only son - the third of his six children - to fall into the vicious drug trap when he was a teen.
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