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Monday, January 7, 1974

Sir Murray said there was a need for a treatment and after-care

programme that could be applied en masse with a minimum of confinement

or hospitalisation.

The methadone) experiments now being conducted principally

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by the Medical and Health Department and the Discharged 'Prisoners' Aid

Society appear crucial in this respect," he said,

Sir Murray said that under its new terms of reference, ACAN

would be the sale channel of advice to the government on policies to

combat drug abuse and on the allocation of resources to government and

voluntary agencies implementing these policios.

ACAN also had been strengthened in two ways.

:

"Firstly, with the creation of a new narcotics division in the

Department of Medical and Health, ACAN will have for the first time

official technical advice.

"Secondly, it has a secretariat to give it administrative muscle

and follow-up capacity.'

Copies of a photograph of the meeting

are boxed for collection.

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