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MONDAY, MAY 29, 1989
WAS A CHRONIC,
RELAPSING
INTO ACCOUNT AND
DR NEWMAN NOTED THAT ADDICTION
THIS TAKE CONDITION AND TREATMENT SYSTEMS HAD TO ESTABLISH OBJECTIVES THAT WERE PRACTICAL AND REALISTIC.
+
THE METHADONE PROGRAMME PERMITS THE PATIENT TO ACHIEVE
MEMBER
COMMUNITY AND A CONTRIBUTING
OF STABILITY AS
WHO MAY
FAILED REPEATEDLY PARTICULARLY USEFUL FOR PEOPLE OTHER FORMS OF TREATMENT.
SOCIAL
THE HAVE
IT
IS
IN
THE CONSUMPTION AND
SALE
OF
OF
BENEFITS
HE SAID.
"BY LESSENING THE POSSESSION, HEROIN, AS WELL AS THE CRIMINALITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACQUISITION MONEY TO BUY ILLICIT
TREATMENT NARCOTICS, METHADONE ENORMOUSLY BOTH THE PATIENTS AND THE SOCIETY AS A WHOLE,
PROVIDE EVERY DR NEWMAN SAID THAT IT WAS VITALLY IMPORTANT TO
LEGAL, MEDICALLY SAFE AND SINGLE ADDICT WITH A READILY ACCESSIBLE,
OF EFFECTIVE ALTERNATIVE
CONTINUED ILLICIT SELF-ADMINISTRATION
HEROIN.
то
AND
IN THE WORLD WHERE "HONG KONG IS ONE OF THE VERY FEW PLACES THIS OBJECTIVE HAS BEEN MET, AND THIS IS A TRIBUTE TO THE RESOLVE THE RESOURCEFULNESS OF THE GOVERNMENT, HE ADDED.
DRUG-FREE PROGRAMMES REHABILITATION OF DEPARTMENT.
DRUG
OPERATED BY
AND ABUSERS
DR NEWMAN CONCLUDED HIS COMMENTS BY REFERRING TO THE
FOR THE SOCIETY
BY THE CORRECTIONAL
THE AID
EXCELLENT AND SERVICES
AND
THE THESE HAD EARNED THE RESPECT OF CONTINUED TO FUNCTION EFFECTIVELY ALONGSIDE TREATMENT PROGRAMME.
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY,
THE METHADONE
"SUCH A
MULTI-FACETED
APPROACH
EFFORTS IN THE PREVENTION AND INTERNATIONAL CONTROL UNPARALLELED RESOURCES OF THE COMPUTERISED CENTRAL REGISTRY ABUSE, PUTS HONG KONG AS A CLASS OF ITS OWN.
TO TREATMENT, COMPLEMENTING ARENAS, AND THE FOR DRUG
"THIS SURELY EXPLAINS WHY HONG KONG HAS NOT SEEN THE SHARP RISE THE UNITED STATES IN NARCOTIC ADDICTION CURRENTLY BEING REPORTED IN AND MANY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, HE SAID.
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