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is recommended that the Narcotics Advisory Committee should be
dissolved, a recommendation which it is understood is in conformity
with the wishes of its members.
The Action Committee Against Narcotics (A.C.A.N.)
7.
By 1964 it was realised that although a great deal of
work was progressing on all fronts in the Colony's campaign to
interdict illicit trafficking and to treat and rehabilitate drug addicts, nevertheless this work lacked co-ordination and confluence
at the operational level. A Narcotics Seminar sponsored by the Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society and the Secretariat for Chinese
Affairs in October 1964 made prominent reference in its report to
the unsatisfactory control and co-ordination arrangements prevailing
at that time. This led to the creation of the Action Committee Against Narcotics (A.C.A.N.) in June 1965.
8.
A.C.A.N. consists of a main Committee of a Chairman and
19 members supported by 4 permanent Sub-Committees viz :-
(a) Education and Publicity Sub-Committee,
(b) Deterrents Sub-Committee,
(c) Research Sub-Committee, and
(a) Troutment and Rehabilitation Sub-Committee.
In addition there is a working Party on Narcotics Publications and a Supervising Committee to look after a three year Methadone Maintenance Pilot Scheme being run by the Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society. The names of the Sub-Committees are self-explanatory
except for Deterrents perhaps. This Sub-Committee is concerned primarily with ensuring so far as possible that the law and the various legal and administrative procedures are as good as they
can be to deter the commission of offences under the Dangerous Drugs and Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinances. It is in the Sub- Committees that the main work of A.C.A.N. takes place, the main
Committee by its very nature and size being very much a formal body. The development of A.C.A.N. and its Sub-Committees over
the years together with their Terms of Reference and membership are set out at Appendix 'A'.
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