charge was Leong Hon Koon. The treatment and rehabilitation were done in coherent with proper ethics, that is the addict would be seen as a patient to be treated medically instead of an ill-doer and that it will be treated as a person with treatment being total.The total treatment of the addict, as a person, consists of three phases: The withdrawal phase. The phase of rehabilitation and re-education. The follow-up phase - a continuation of the first two phases.On 30 November 1989, the Singapore government passed a bill to extend the death penalty to cocaine, cannabis and opium traffickers including manufacturers, importers and exporters. References History of opium Drugs in Singapore