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Drug abusers: Rehab v long-term imprisonment
Tough law came amid rise in abusers
Long-term imprisonment came into law in 1998 to curb growing number of hardcore addicts who turned to crime to feed their habit
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The man who was deputy director of the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) in the early years of the 1990s, Mr Masbollah Fazal, recalls that his agency took a two-pronged strategy to tackling drug misuse.
That was: To hit drug syndicates hard by arresting masterminds and working down the chain to detain traffickers; and to arrest addicts and send them to drug rehabilitation centres (DRCs).
