{"id":9957,"date":"2010-11-11T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=9957"},"modified":"2015-05-28T03:48:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T03:48:57","slug":"ukm-researchers-to-assist-two-ngos-fight-drug-abuse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/november-2010\/ukm-researchers-to-assist-two-ngos-fight-drug-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"UKM researchers to assist two NGOs fight drug abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2010%2Fnovember-2010%2Fukm-researchers-to-assist-two-ngos-fight-drug-abuse%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=9957&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/hadari-bi1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>THURSDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2010 18:32<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Abdul Ghani Nasir<br \/>\nPix by Abd Raai Osman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nBANGI, 11 Nov. 2010 \u2013\u00a0Researchers from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) will help two NGOs in their efforts to curb drug abuse in the country through various research activities as well as co organising seminars and workshops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThis follows the signing of Letters of Intent for Cooperation (LOI) between the university and the Muslim Women Action Organisation (Pertiwi) and the Association for the Prevention of Drug Abuse (Pemadam).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nUnder the LOI, UKM will\u00a0cooperate in carrying out research on drug abuse as well as cooperate in organising seminars, workshop and other programmes to develop human capital as well as sharing of information and knowledge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nUKM was represented by Director Institute of Islam Hadhari, Prof Dato\u2019 Dr Mohd Yusof Othman; Pertiwi by its Head, Emeritus Prof Datuk Dr Nik Safiah Karim and Pemadam by the Secretary of its International Bureau, Mustapha Ma at the signing ceremony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nA forum on \u201cWomen in the Fight Against Drug Abuse\u201d\u00a0 was held before the signing ceremony. Chief Assistant Secretary Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dzulfefly Abdullah; DSP Nafisah Adam, from CID Narcotics, and the Director (Prevention) National Anti Drug Agency, Lasimon Matokrem took part in the forum with Senior Associate Fellow Institute of Islam Hadhari, Associate Prof. Datin Noor Aziah Mohd Awal acted as the moderator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nDzulfekly said participation of women were being encouraged in the fight against the abuse as an increasing number of women were being coerced into becoming drug mules although statistics showed less than two per cent of the 280,000 drug addicts in this country are women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe reminded family members particularly parents to be wary of their children\u2019s activities especially when they wanted to go for a holiday overseas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nParents must be concerned and interested to know who they would be going with and to which countries to avoid them and especially young women from becoming victims of drug syndicates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nYoung women travellers are more prone to be tricked into becoming drug mules by their new casanova boyfriends, he warned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/hadari2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/hadari3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So far nine women had undergone capital punishment with four in Thailand, two in Singapore and four sentenced to death in China for smuggling drugs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAnother 24 women are now languishing in prisons in Thailand, 18 in Australia and another 16 in China with the youngest \u00a0being only19 years old and the oldest 52.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nInvestigations showed that almost all the drug mules did not have any criminal records in Malaysia and usually worked in the services and sales sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nDzulfely reminded women not to be easily deceived with offers of well paid jobs overseas and to also be wary of being sweet-talked by foreigners categorised as casanovas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nLasimon told the forum that the agency organized Outreach programmes to help family with problems and those exposed to drug abuse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIt also organised visits, love-thy-children programmes besides helping rehabilitation projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nDSP Napisah in outlining police relentless effort in fighting drug smuggling and abuse told the forum that PDRM depended a lot on intelligence gathering. She, nonetheless, assured that the drug problem here is under control compared to other countries especially in Latin America.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THURSDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2010 18:32 By Abdul Ghani Nasir Pix by Abd Raai Osman BANGI, 11 Nov. 2010 \u2013\u00a0Researchers from<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/november-2010\/ukm-researchers-to-assist-two-ngos-fight-drug-abuse\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9958,"parent":1416,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9957","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9959,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9957\/revisions\/9959"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}