SEOUL, June 27 (Yonhap) -- More than 80 percent of drug addicts in South Korea were not advised by the judiciary to get treatment for their addictions, leaving a majority of them to struggle on their own, a report showed Monday.

According to the report by Jo Geun-ho, a professor at the department of addiction rehabilitation with social welfare at Eulji University, 83 percent of drug addicts said they were not given legal advice to receive treatment. If provided with rehabilitation programs, 73.8 percent said they would get treatment.