Drug Abuse Smashes Brunei Families Friday Sermon Warns

Bandar Seri Begawan – Drug abuse has gained such a significant march on Brunei that it is smashing up local families.

It also stressed that a good understanding of religion is needed in order to avoid negative influences.

This is because a person with a strong foundation in Islamic teachings will not be easily influenced by friends or others to commit bad deeds. However, there were cases of former drug users returning to drugs.

And sadly, this happens when they are discarded by their family and the community.

The Khutbah stressed the parents' role in helping to change former drug users’ direction in life.

This includes giving them the love and care, religious guidance and the support that they need in their new life.

Meanwhile, a panellist at the current National Convention on Health Promotion offered the latest statistics for last month.

Out of 32,182 students in 28 secondary schools nationwide in June, 33 were declared as positive drug users by the Narcotics Control Bureau, of which 29 were Malay males and four Malay females.

In 1993, the Ministry of Education set up what it called the Education, Prevention and Misuse of Drugs Unit, made up of education officers, teachers and counselling staff to teach students about the dangers as well as contain the threat of drugs.

Citing social and even personal family problems as the main causes for a youth to turn to drugs, they highlighted the importance and support that the whole of society must play if the drug menace could ever be eliminated from Brunei’s shores. -- Courtesy of Radio Television Brunei

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