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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
Wednesday, November 22, 1972
METHADONE MAINTENANCE PILOT SCHEME TO BEGIN
A three-year methadone maintenance pilot scheme sponsored by
the Hong Kong Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society will begin soon.
The aim is to discover with what success methadone maintenance
can achieve withdrawal from heroin and to determine whether its application
is useful in the rehabilitation of drug addicts in Hong Kong.
The scheme will be run in consultation with a supervisory committee
appointed by the Action Committee Against Narcotics. It is headed by
Dr. P.H. Teng, Professor of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University
of Hong Kong, and consists of representatives of professional associations
and government departments.
The programme will treat 100 volunteer male addicts, aged between
25 and 50, using different doses of methadone. Cases will be hospitalised
for two weeks initially to allow detoxification from heroin and induction
to methadone.
After this they will attend daily at an out-patient centre where
they will take their methadone under supervision. No methadone will be
dispensed for home use.
/Former prisoners,
Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191
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