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+BY THIS MEANS MORE AND MORE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE BEING ARMED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WILL ENABLE THEM TO RESIST DRUGS.+
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF A SEMINAR FOR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, MR MORTIMER STRESSED THAT HEROIN CONTINUED TO BE THE MAIN DRUG ABUSED IN HONG KONG.
+HOWEVER, WE ARE NOT NEGLECTING THE PROBLEM OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG ABUSE EVEN THOUGH THIS DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE A SERIOUS SOCIAL PROBLEM IN HONG KONG AT PRESENT, HE SAID,
+WE HAVE BEEN MONITORING THE SITUATION CLOSELY, HE ADDED.
MR MORTIMER POINTED OUT THAT THERE WAS NO PERCEPTIBLE DRUG-RELATED DETERIORATION IN ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SCHOOLS. NO DRUG-RELATED UPSURGE IN ABSENTEEISM AT SCHOOL OR WORK PLACE, AND NO MARKED INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF ADMISSIONS TO PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS FOR THE TREATMENT OF HABITUAL PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG ABUSERS,
HE SAID THAT IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE, HOWEVER, TO ESTIMATE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO MIGHT BE TAKING THESE DRUGS OCCASIONALLY AND WHO HAD NOT YET FELT THE NEED FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT.
+WE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION BY MEANS OF SPĘCIAL SURVEYS, MEDICAL STATISTICS AND SEIZURES OF ILLICIT PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS, HE SAID.
THE SEMINAR, ENTITLED THE DRUG PROBLEM AND PREVENTIVE EDUCATION, WAS ORGANISED BY THE NARCOTICS DIVISION, GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT AND IS THE SECOND OF ITS KIND.
IT IS AIMED AT GIVING SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE DRUG PROBLEM IN HONG KONG AND TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO EXPRESS VIEWS ON PREVENTIVE DRUG EDUCATION,
PRESENT AT THE SEMINAR WERE ABOUT 100 ADMINISTRATORS FROM SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KWUN TONG, TSUEN WAN, KWAI CHUNG, NORTH AND SOUTHERN DISTRICTS, WHERE DRUG EDUCATION TALKS HAD BEEN CONDUCTED SINCE OCTOBER, 1984.
ALSO SPEAKING AT THE SEMINAR WAS MR ISAAC CHOW, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, NARCOTICS DIVISION, WHO PRESENTED SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS WITH THE GENERAL PICTURE OF THE DRUG PROBLEM IN HONG KONG AND THE IMPORTANCE OF PREVENTIVE EDUCATION.
THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES, DR S.L. CHAN ALSO EXPLAINED THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF DRUG ABUSE, AND SUPERINTENDENT C.K. KWOK OF THE POLICE NARCOTICS BUREAU, ADVISED SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS ON HOW THE POLICE COULD ASSIST IF A PROBLEM OF DRUG ABUSE SHOULD DEVELOP IN THEIR SCHOOLS,
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