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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
Wednesday, September 20, 1972
HONG KONG'S FIRST TREATMENT CENTRE FOR WOMEN PROVES SUCCESSFUL
A four-year pilot scheme begun in 1968 to help women drug
addicts has proved to be a viable project and plans for its expansion
are now being considered.
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This was disclosed by a spokesman for the Society for the Aid
and Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts, SARDA, 'which set up Hong Kong's first
treatment centre for women in Wan Chai.
"The pilot project, small though it is," the spokesman said,
"suggests that the social factors which lead to addiction and therefore
the style of effective treatment, differ from men to women, even though
there is no difference in the nature of the addiction and its overall
effects on social functioning."
The guiding principle in the planning and operation of the
women's treatment centre has been the "totality" of the institution,
with care and after-care for the drug addict.
"Staff of the centre have adopted the unified approach to
rehabilitate the addicts and have avoided separate emphasis on the medical
and social realms. However serious new approaches have been adopted in
medical and social treatment and co-operation has been the keynote," he said.
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