Residential rehabilitation are a key plank in the fight against drugs

Updated June 15 2018 - 9:42pm, first published 7:30pm

THE release of crime statistics for the region this week makes for unsettling reading. To see that police have detected 403 drug offences across the south-west for the year up to March 31 is a stark statistic. Worse is the fact that these offences have risen by almost one-quarter to the previous year.

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