Sri Lanka, Oct. 28 -- Over 230,000 school children within the Colombo District alone are addicted to drugs, claims Prisons Commissioner and Prisons Media Spokesman Jagath Weerasinghe.

He made this statement during his participation in a school awareness program focused on preventing drug abuse, held at Godapitiya National School in Akuressa, yesterday (27).

"In the Colombo District of the Western Province alone, 230,982 school children are drug addicts. I am sure that the Southern Province might be even worse. The South is placed number one in underworld activities."

"The majority of those in prison in Sri Lanka are young people and the majority of them have a low level of literacy," the Prisons Commissioner said.

He added: "There are...