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THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1983
1988, THE COMMISSIONER
WHILE REVIEWING THE DRUG SITUATION IN
CONTINUATION OF FOR NARCOTICS, MR GARETH MULLOY, SAID THE YEAR SAW A
THE NUMBER OF PERSONN IN 1984, IN THE DOWNWARD TREND, WHICH BEGAN NEWLY REPORTED TO THE COMPUTERISED CENTRAL REGISTRY OF DRUG ABUSE.
"THE NUMBER OF PERSONS OF ALL AGES NEWLY REPORTED DECREASFD 10.9 PER CENT TO 2,139 FROM 2,400 IN 1987.
"THE NUMBER OF NEWLY REPORTED YOUNG PERSONS UNDER 21 DROPPED BY 5.3 PER CENT, FROM 717 TO 679.
ABUSERS "THERE ARE ABOUT 41,000 ACTIVE DRUG
ARE HEROIN 96 PER CENT THEM, AMONG
BY
THE AGE OF
RECORDED IN THE
AND ADDICTS
THE
REGISTRY. REMAINING FOUR PER CENT TAKE MAINLY MANDRAX AND CANNABIS," HE SAID.
THERE
A WAS
SIGNIFICANT THAT ALTHOUGH STRESSED MR MULLOY
FROM 20 INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF PERSONS REPORTED ABUSING CANNABIS,
NOT HAD
REACHED AN ALARMING IN 1987 TO 106 IN 1988, THE SITUATION LEVEL.
"PUBLICITY
HAS,
NEVERTHELESS,
BEEN
STEPPED UP
AGAINST
CANNABIS ABUSE IN RECENT MONTHS.
"A WARNING POSTER HAS BEEN PRODUCED
THROUGHOUT SITES
"
MR
MULLOY
WARNED THAT
PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG.
AT GOVERNMENT POSTER ANNOUNCEMENT OF PUBLIC INTEREST IS NEARING SCREENED ON TELEVISION SHORTLY,
AND POSTED CONSPICUOUSLY
WHILE THE TERRITORY
AN
COMPLETION AND WILL BE
HALLUCINOGENIC
HE SAID.
CANNABIS
WAS A
TIME
"EVEN OCCASIONAL USE CAN LEAD PEOPLE AND SPACE CAN INDUCE DISTORTION CONCENTRATION.
OF
INTO
AND
DANGER POOR
BECAUSE JUDGEMENT
IT
AND
"CONTINUOUS ABUSE MAY LEAD TO
BRONCHITIS,
CONJUNCTIVITIS AND
POSSIBLE ORGANIC DAMAGE.
"MOST DANGEROUSLY IT CAN SERVE AS A GATEWAY OR INTRODUCTION HEROIN, HE ADDED.
TO
THE COMMISSIONER SAID 1988 ALSO SAW SOME
REMARKABLE SUCCESSES
IN LAW ENFORCEMENT.
ILLICIT
INCLUDING OPIATES, OF NO. 4 HEROIN,
625 WERE
"A TOTAL OF 944 KILOGRAMS OF KILOGRAMS OF NO. 3 HEROIN AND 252 KILOGRAMS SEIZED DURING THE YEAR.
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SINCE "THE SEIZURES OF NO. 3 AND NO. 4 HEROIN WERE THE HIGHEST
IN 1987 THE 1971, AND WHEN COMPARED WITH THE CORRESPONDING SEIZURES
RESPECTIVELY.' 94 PER CENT AND INCREASE WAS 75 PER CENT
TABLETS OF MANDRAX A TOTAL OF 6,413 AGAINST 58,699 IN 1987, REFLECTING THAT THE BEEN BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL.
SEIZED IN 1988, WERE
OF PROBLEM
MANDRAX
HAD
/FIFTY-FIVE