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"The anti-drug programme will comprise a wide variety of educational, entertainment and sports activities with active support and participation from District Boards, District Fight Crime Committees, voluntary agencies, educational institutions, Government Departments, the media and private organizations."
Having regard to the recommendations of the Task Group on Preventive Education Strategy, Mr Wong said the following PE & P themes would be adopted for the year 1997/98:
to educate young persons that there is no difference between "hard" and "soft" drugs in terms of harmful effects, and to better equip them with refusal skills;
to alert parents the importance of strengthening parent-child relationship and the role that they could play to steer their children away from drugs;
to encourage people, in particular young people, to adopt a drug-free life, and to point out that whatever their problems may be, there are other alternatives to drug.
Components of the PE & P programme include, among others,
Drug Education Talks and a new video for the talks
Anti-drug Homepage on the Internet
Mobile Publicity Unit
Workshops and Seminars
Joint Projects with the Electronic Media
District Anti-drug campaigns
Mr Wong said: "Drug education talks will continue to be given by the School Talk Team of the Narcotics Division of the Government Secretariat for secondary and primary 6 school students and parents of secondary school students.
"A new video featuring different refusal skills in various real-life situations will be produced to enhance the contents of the drug education talks for secondary school students.