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TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1974.
TREATED DRUG ADDICTS GET NEW LEASE, ON LIFE
THE PRISONS DEPARTMENT'S HALF-WAY HOUSE PROGRAMME TO HELP TREATED DRUG ADDICTS DELITEGRATE INTO SOCIETY AND LIVE NORMAL LIVES IS PROVINS FAIRLY SUCCESSFUL.
THE PROGRAME IS INTENDED FOR THOSE REHABILITATED ADDICTS WITHOUT A FIXED PLACE OF CODE OR FANLY TIES, THOSE VITU UNSATISFACTORY LIVING COLDITIONS OR AN UNDERSIRABLE HOME ENVIROISIENT, AS WELL AS, TI:OSE DEENED IN NEED OF CLOSE AND STRICT SUPERVISION.
THE VALUE OF THE PROGRAME IS SUNNED UP II ME ATTITUDE OF THE INATES THEMSELVES WHO FEEL THAT THEIR TEMPORARY STAY IN THE DEPARTMENT'S HALF-WAY 1:OUSE KIDUN AS THE $120 LIFE HOUSE GIVES THEII A CHANCE TO ADJUST TO A DRAND NEU LIFE.
AT PRESENT, THE PROGRANCE IS RUTI ON A MODEST SCALE BUT PLANS ARE ALREADY IN HAND TO SUPPLEMENT EXISTING FACILITIES BY BUILDING A LARGER HALF-WAY HOUSE, SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS, ÎN LUNG CHEUNG ROAD, KOULCOM.
THE PROPOSED NEU HALF-WAY HOUGE WILL PROVIDE AGCOIHIODATION FOR 100 MEN AND 20 FEMALES, AID VILL CO A LONG WAY TOWARDS HELPING THE DEPARTIIGHT TO KEET PROJECTED TEEDS.
ACCORDING TO A PRISONS DEPARTIENT CPOKESMAN, REHABILITATED DRUG ADDICTS PASSING THOUGH THE HALF-WAY LOUSE STAND A KUCH BETTER CHANCE OF SUCCESSFULLY RETURNING TO A KOENAL LIFE IN SOCIETY. +WITHOUT GUIDANCE, ASSISTANCE AND SUPERVISION TO HELP THEM ADJUST TO A IEU DEGHING, IT COULD DE DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO COPE WITH PRODLENS THEY NICHT EXPERIEKSE AND THIS COULD HAVE A FORMIDADLE IF NOT FATAL EFFECT ON ALL-COUND OFFORTS OF THEIR REHABILITATION.+
THE HIKEDIATE PERIOD FOLLOWING DISOIMAGE WAS THE HOST DIFFICULT FOR HALY TREATED ADDICTS AND VITHOUT STRONG SUPPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY, PARTICULARLY FRON RECIR PAHLIES MID POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS, THEY WERE APT TO SLIP DACK INTO THEIR FORMER WAY OF LIFE, HE SAID.
THE 'NEW LIFE HOUSE' IS LOCATED IN CORROVED PREMISES IN VICTORIA BOAD IN KEMEDY TOUN. IT IS A SHALL TIREE-STOREY BUILDING BELONGING TO THE CARITAS ORGANISATION OF JONG KONG AND WHICH HAS DEEN LOMED TO THE PRISONS DEPARTMENT SIKOR JULY 1950. TIE CROUND FLOOR HOUSES THE KITCHEN, SITTING Coon, OFFICE AND STAFF QUARTERS, WHILE THE BORNITORIES OCCUPY THE TWO UPPER FLOORS.
THE HALF WAY
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