The Drug Rehabilitation Centre (DRC) is a vast complex run by Singapore’s Prison Service, which makes sense because this is incarceration by any other name. There’s barbed wire, a...
It involves preventive drug education, tough anti-drug laws, rigorous enforcement, international engagement, and the rehabilitation and aftercare of drug offenders. Drug abuse harms the drug abusers, their families and their loved ones. Drug abuse also affects the wider community. Our people are Singapore’s most precious assets and we cannot allow drugs to take hold of our society. ...
SINGAPORE - When former drug abuser Simon Khung was at a drug rehabilitation centre in 2020...
A toke on a joint – then six months of forced rehab in a concrete cell ; A guard monitors CCTV in the Drug Rehabilitation Centre (DRC) control room ; The BBC was given rare access inside Singapore’s austere Drug Rehabilitation Centre ; Inmates are given items including a T-shirt and socks, and a rush mat on which to sleep ; Inmates take part in sessions including on mindfulness, during which they are taught how to control runaway thoughts
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recalcitrant drug addict knew his 14-year-old son was also taking drugs, but instead of helping the boy, he gave him drugs from his own stash when asked. The 52-year-old, who has been in and out of the Drug Rehabilitation Centre (DRC) multiple times over the past three decades, also openly consumed methamphetamine at home in full view of his 15-year-old daughter. He was caught by officers from the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) on May 6 at home after he absconded from a DRC programme on April 22. ...
A toke on a joint - then six months of forced rehab in a concrete cell ; A guard monitors CCTV in the Drug Rehabilitation Centre (DRC) control room ; The BBC was given rare access inside Singapore's austere Drug Rehabilitation Centre ; Inmates are given items including a T-shirt and socks, and a rush mat on which to sleep ; Inmates take part in sessions including on mindfulness, during which they are taught how to control runaway thoughts
SINGAPORE - The mood at Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza was solemn as Law and Home Affairs Minister... the Drug Rehabilitation Centre (DRC), said families struggle when a family member is trapped...
In 2022, approximately 2.91 thousand males and 429 females were in the Drug Rehabilitation Center (DRC) in Singapore.
“We focus on them as people who need help, so they are put into centers.” Singapore’s Drug Rehabilitation Center admitted 1,995 people last year. “Traffickers, of course, we deal...