Date of Award

1-1-2001

Thesis Type

PhD

Document Type

Thesis

Divisions

Faculty of Business and Economics

Department

Department of Political Science, Public Administration and Development Studies

Institution

Universiti Malaya

Abstract

The Study reveals new important findings about the effectiveness of Malaysian Anti-Drug Policy. Based on the two levels of analysis; the policy itself and the surveyed respondents, the study shows that drug problem remain critical due to the lack of enforcement and rehabilitation. This resulted in the rise of the drug addiction and trafficking cases over the last five years (1996-2000). The newly established anti drug agencies failed, relative to their predecessors, to curtail such problems. Rehabilitation programmes which largely focused 0n new addicts provided greater room for the hardcore addicts to have a direct contact with the potential addicts in the society. Narrow and limited targets of the prevention programmes excluded teachers, pupils and the committee jointly involving in the primary prevention process. Over emphasis on enforcement and rehabilitation for fifteen years now has constrained the financial resources for another important strategy that is prevention. The study reveals that the overall anti drug policy fails to justify the large amount of budget allocated each year to the programmes. Thus, unsurprisingly that respondents graded medium for the quality and success of the anti drug agencies. There were 1,093 complaints from the respondents about the policy weakness among others, regarding corruption, drug supply. trafficking, non-serious commitment. lack of responsibility, prevention, treatment, law and enforcement. Factor analysis trace three factors that could support the anti drug policy: campaign, legislation and treatment. Unfortunately it was found that thirteen items of the three group factors mitigated the effectiveness of the policy. These include the easy access to the drug supply, relapse cases, trafficking, addiction. congestion in treatment centers, inactive participation of non­governmental organization, media and the community.

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Thesis (PhD) -- Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya, 2001.

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