In 2024, the youngest person arrested for drug abuse was 13 years old, and over the last two years, more than half of the new abusers arrested were below 30 years old, says Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam. SINGAPORE: The true cost of drug abuse cannot be measured in economic terms alone, and the scale of the “human tragedy” is “immense”, said Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Friday (May 16). Speaking at the Drug Victims Remembrance Day observance ceremony at Suntec