10
Monday, January 7, 1974
Sir Murray said there was a need for a treatment and after-care
programme that could be applied en masse with a minimum of confinement
or hospitalisation.
The methadone) experiments now being conducted principally
——
by the Medical and Health Department and the Discharged 'Prisoners' Aid
Society appear crucial in this respect," he said,
Sir Murray said that under its new terms of reference, ACAN
would be the sale channel of advice to the government on policies to
combat drug abuse and on the allocation of resources to government and
voluntary agencies implementing these policios.
ACAN also had been strengthened in two ways.
:
"Firstly, with the creation of a new narcotics division in the
Department of Medical and Health, ACAN will have for the first time
official technical advice.
"Secondly, it has a secretariat to give it administrative muscle
and follow-up capacity.'
Copies of a photograph of the meeting
are boxed for collection.
Note to Editors:
J
1. A