Shrugging off the message, Amit said: “It’s nothing new. There are three, four boys in school who send these messages whenever they get a new supply of drugs. They get it from someone outside.”
If you think that’s brazen, think again. In August, the Public Prosecution interrogated two girl students who had in their possession 234 Flunitrazepam pills, a psychotropic substance. Last month, Dubai Police arrested a teenager who had been lured by an international gang to sell drugs to his school friends. And just last week the police arrested a 39-year-old man who had enrolled at a night school where he was selling banned painkillers and other drugs to young students.
In what is a chilling reality, drug peddling and consumption are getting too close for comfort as the supply chain seeps into the safety of homes and schools. The problem is so serious that Major General Abdul Jalil Mahdi Al Asmawi, Director of the General Department of Anti-Narcotics at Dubai Police, has issued a warning saying the average age of schoolchildren involved has fallen from 16 to 12.
Reporting cases
“Some schools have the courage and morals to report children who are addicts in their school or those who sell drugs. I encourage all schools to report such cases to us in order to protect a whole generation
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