THE Drug Enforcement Commission says it has recorded a 50 percent increase in the number of new clients, mainly youths, who enrolled for its counselling programme from 810 in 2021 to 1,212 in 2022. The commission has also urged Education and Counselling Department (ECD) officers to maintain the highest levels of integrity and confidentiality in order to deal with the drug problem in the country. In a speech read on her behalf by DEC Deputy Director General Ronnet Chanda during a workshop, Wednesday, DEC Director General Mary Chirwa disclosed that according to the 2022 annual statistics under the counselling programme, the department attended to 1,212 new clients. “According to the 2022 annual statistics under the counselling programme, the department attended...