KUCHING: People aged 30 years and under are more likely to be involved in drug abuse now which has changed from using conventional drugs to synthetic drugs, said Sarawak Police Commissioner Datuk Aidi Ismail yesterday.

He said 5,372 or 55.2 per cent of 9,739 arrests from January to November this year for various drug offences were from this group, according to the statistics of arrest of the Sarawak CID.