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For each item, we'll begin with a number of short prepared presentations. Then I throw the topic open to contributions from the floor. I want your ideas and I want your advice, both about what the Government can do, but also about what the community as a whole, or sectors of the community, or groups at the district level, can do to half the growing trend in drug abuse by young people.
When I call for comments from the floor please do feel free to put up your hands. I'll ask you to go to one of the three microphones in the central aisle and speak from there. I hope that when people do speak they will do their best to keep their comments short and to the point, simply so that as many people as possible will have a chance to speak. If we do run out of time and we don't have time to hear everybody, which is I guess inevitable, there are two boxes at the back of the hall into which you can place any written views that you would like taken into account.
Equally of course, if you want to get in touch with me, or ACAN, or the Commissioner for Narcotics after this meeting, with views that you would like to express today but didn't have the time to express, we'll want to hear from
you.
At the end of the meeting, I will try to pull the strands together and suggest how we might move forward.
Just let me repeat one thing I have said. This afternoon, we haven't got very long. I know that many of you spend your lives dealing with this issue. So the prospect of getting so much informed experience, so much knowledge expressing itself during a short afternoon, the possibility of that is remote. But first, this is not the one and only time we'll have to discuss this. I shall want to do this again and I shall want between now and our next Summit to see as many of you as possible, those of you who are working with agencies on the ground, I'll hope to be able to see quite a few of you over the next year or so.
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