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reasonable time. The review should be wide ranging and the Committee might be invited to consider in particular :
(a) whether the Prisons Department should
(b)
continue to treat persons convicted solely of minor drug offences (who are social misfits rather than criminals);
if the answer to (a) is that the Prisons
Department should not, then what arrangements should be made to treat this category of offenders;
(c) whether persons sentenced to imprisonment
for offences of all kinds who are found to be addicts whilst in custody should be obliged to undergo a course of treatment before they
are released;
(d) what provision should be made to cure opium addicts who are now invariably fined by the Courts because prison sentences are regarded as inappropriate and treatment facilities
barely exist;
(e)
whether Government should build any more Tai Lam type drug treatment centres; (f) whether the length of time addicts now
spend in Prisons Department treatment centres should be reduced to increase
throughput even at the risk of higher
relapse rates;
(g)
the role of SARDA in the programmes which
may be recommended for treating addicts
(h)
en masse and the programmes it should offer; whether DPAS should continue to operate
drug treatment programmes;
(i) methadone maintenance as a possible mass
cure for opiate addiction;
(j) the after-care arrangements necessary for
each programme of treatment recommended and
the length of after-care to be given with each programme.
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