1. Prepared by: Rubenesvaran Rau
Department of Psychology and
General Studies.

3. # 1 Germany:
# 2 United Kingdom:
# 3 Canada:
# 4 South Africa:
# 5 Switzerland:
# 6 Belgium:
# 7 Sweden:
# 8 Italy:
# 9 Poland:
# 10 Japan:
# 11 New Zealand:
people
# 12 Mexico:
# 13 Austria:
# 14 Morocco:
# 15 Argentina:
# 16 Finland:
# 17 Netherlands:
people
# 18 Croatia:
# 19 Slovenia:
# 20 Belarus:
# 21 Hungary:
# 22 Peru:
# 23 Bolivia:
# 24 Czech Republic:
# 25 Portugal:
# 26 Burma:
# 27 Moldova:
# 28 Azerbaijan:
# 29 Panama:
# 30 Luxembourg:
people
250,969 per 100,000 people
183,419 per 100,000 people
92,590 per 100,000 people
53,810 per 100,000 people
49,201 per 100,000 people
40,856 per 100,000 people
38,005 per 100,000 people
37,965 per 100,000 people
36,178 per 100,000 people
26,477 per 100,000 people
23,747 per 100,000
23,588 per 100,000 people
22,422 per 100,000 people
17,064 per 100,000 people
15,508 per 100,000 people
13,857 per 100,000 people
12,683 per 100,000
10,819 per 100,000 people
5,583 per 100,000 people
5,303 per 100,000 people
4,786 per 100,000 people
4,359 per 100,000 people
3,938 per 100,000 people
3,860 per 100,000 people
3,758 per 100,000 people
2,867 per 100,000 people
2,481 per 100,000 people
2,190 per 100,000 people
1,484 per 100,000 people
1,321 per 100,000
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# 36
# 37
# 38
# 39
# 40
# 41
# 42
# 43
# 44
# 45
# 46
# 47
# 48
# 49
# 50
# 51
Romania:
Slovakia:
Costa Rica:
Denmark:
Iceland:
Norway:
Lithuania:
Uruguay:
Tunisia:
Latvia:
United States:
Cyprus:
Thailand:
Malta:
Chile:
Maldives:
Albania:
Oman:
Nepal:
Ireland:
France:
# 52 Malaysia:
# 53
# 54
# 55
# 56
# 57
Singapore:
Hong Kong:
Greece:
Spain:
Korea, South:
people
# 58 Turkey:
# 59 China:
# 60 Indonesia:
1,291 per 100,000 people
1,119 per 100,000 people
1,099 per 100,000 people
1,053 per 100,000 people
994 per 100,000 people
987.1 per 100,000 people
937 per 100,000 people
857 per 100,000 people
815 per 100,000 people
629 per 100,000 people
560.1 per 100,000 people
436 per 100,000 people
428.9 per 100,000 people
341 per 100,000 people
324 per 100,000 people
293 per 100,000 people
250 per 100,000 people
247 per 100,000 people
201 per 100,000 people
190.2 per 100,000 people
176.1 per 100,000 people
48.6 per 100,000 people
46.8 per 100,000 people
34 per 100,000 people
33.3 per 100,000 people
27.9 per 100,000 people
9.9 per 100,000
4.6 per 100,000 people
3.9 per 100,000 people
3.4 per 100,000 people

4. NO. OF NEW HIV INFECTIONS, AIDS CASES AND AIDS DEATHS
BY GENDER PER YEAR REPORTED IN MALAYSIA
(1986 – DECEMBER 2004)
YEAR
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
TOTAL
HIV INFECTION
Male
Female
TOTAL
3
0
3
2
0
2
7
2
9
197
3
200
769
9
778
1741
53
1794
2443
69
2512
2441
66
2507
3289
104
3393
4037
161
4198
4406
191
4597
3727
197
3924
4327
297
4624
4312
380
4692
4626
481
5107
5472
466
5938
6349
629
6978
6083
673
6756
5,731
696
6427
59,962
4,477 64,439
AIDS CASES
Male
Female
1
0
0
0
2
0
2
0
18
0
58
2
70
3
64
7
98
7
218
15
327
20
538
30
818
57
1114
86
1071
97
1188
114
1068
125
939
137
1,002
146
8,596
846
TOTAL
1
0
2
2
18
60
73
71
105
233
347
568
875
1200
1168
1302
1193
1076
1148
9,442
AIDS DEATH
Male
Female
TOTAL
1
0
1
0
0
0
2
0
2
1
0
1
10
0
10
10
9
19
44
2
46
50
5
55
74
6
80
150
15
165
259
12
271
449
24
473
655
34
689
824
50
874
825
57
882
900
75
975
823
64
887
633
67
700
951
114
1,065
6,661
534
7,195

5. 1988 – 2009: of is 300,241, total number of
drug users, 1.1% of Malaysia’s population
 2009: RM200m of government
expenditure (half for 28 rehabilitation
centers)

Year
Number of
addicts
Age
2005
34, 831
23-42(71.82%)
2006
22, 811
25-29 (71.04%)
2007
14, 489
22-29 (70.37%)
2008
13, 762
20-39 (68%)
2009
12, 352
24-27 (72%)

6. Types
Percentage
Heroin & Morfin
60.73
Opium
0.03
Cannabis
23.12
Glue
0.05
Esctacy
1.00
Syabu/Ice/Glass
10.57
Psychotropic pills* +
Amphetamine
2.77
Cough mixture with codeine
0.79
*E.g. Roche, Up John, Valium

7. Individual
Family
Anxiety, fatigue, depression
Strong desire to use more
Higher rate of low average birthweight babies
Motor control interference
Disruption of family life
Withdrawal symptoms
Mood and performance
Cause sudden death
Abortion
CNS problems
Addicted newborns
Loss of body movement
Risk of contracting AIDS, hepatitis,
STDs

8. Society
Economy
Burglary and
prostitution problems
Lack of work force
Costly – lost work time,
inefficiency
Wastage of
expenditure
Accidents
Violence

9. Accuse
Drugs
Act
Cannabis
6
Having
Less than 20gm
RM 20,000/-or imprisonment for less than 5 years or
both
39A (1)
Having
20 - 50gm
Imprisonment >2 years + < 10 times strokes
39A(2)
Having
50 - 200gm
Lifetime imprisonment + > 10 times strokes
6B
Planting
-
Lifetime imprisonment + > 6 times strokes
39B
Distributing
Having
More than 200gm
DEATH PENALTY
RM 20,000/-or imprisonment for less than 5 years or
both
39A(1)
Having
100 -250gm
Imprisonment >2 years + 3-9 times strokes
39A(2)
Having
250 -1000gm
Lifetime imprisonment + > 10 times strokes
39B
Distributing
1000gm
DEATH PENALTY
12(2)
Having
Less than 2gm
RM 20,000/-or imprisonment for less than 5 years or
both
39A(1)
Having
2 -5gm
Imprisonment >2 years + 3-9 times strokes
39A(2)
Having
5 -15gm
Lifetime imprisonment + > 10 times strokes
39B
Distributing
More than 15gm
DEATH PENALTY
Cough mixture
with codeine
9(1)
Having/Selling/Keeping/Di
stributing
-
RM 3,000/-or imprisonment for less than 1 years or
both
Pills
30(3)
Having/Selling/Keeping/Di
stributing
-
RM 10,000/-or imprisonment for less than 4 years or
both
Syabu/Ice/Glass
12(2)
Having
Less than 5gm
RM 20,000/-or imprisonment for less than 5 years or
both
39A(1)
Having
5 -30gm
Imprisonment >2 years + 3-9 times strokes
39A(2)
Having
30 - 50gm
Lifetime imprisonment + > 10 times strokes
Opium
Heroin/
Monoacetyl
Morphine
9
Penalty
Less than100gm

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http://www.unicef.org/malaysia/Drug_User_
Statistics_Malaysia_-_2009.pdf
http://besonline.rtm.gov.my/details.php?id
=276&pageno=6&field=ot_Title&order=ASC
&title=Other
http://www.nationmaster.com/country/mymalaysia/cri-crime
http://www.usnodrugs.com/effects-of-drugabuse.htm
http://www.rmp.gov.my/