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+ IT WOULD ALSO MAKE CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS MORE DIFFICULT AND EXPENSIVE, HE ADDED.
AS FOR FILLING IN THE NULLAH, HE EXPLAINED IT WOULD ALSO NOT BE POSSIBLE AS THE NULLAH WAS REQUIRED TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE DRAINAGE OF STORM WATER IN THE AREA.
MR SHIPMAN POINTED OUT THAT THE POLLUTION OF NULLAHS BY THE IMPROPER DISPOSAL OF WASTE WAS A TERRITORY-WIDE PROBLEM.
+THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT IS ALREADY COMMITTED TO STUDIES IN OTHER AREAS, BUT WILL EXAMINE HOW THE PROBLEMS AT WONG CHUK HANG SHOULD BE REMEDIED ONCE RESOURCES BECOME AVAILABLE. I HOPE THAT THESE STUDIES CAN BE UNDERTAKEN IN THE COURSE OF NEXT YEAR, HE ADDED.
ANTI-DRUG PUBLICITY DIRECTED TOWARDS HEROIN
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THE GOVERNMENT IS SPENDING $1.58 MILLION THIS FINANCIAL YEAR TO COVER ALL ASPECTS OF THE ANTI-NARCOTICS PREVENTIVE EDUCATION AND PUBLICITY PROGRAMME, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE HON MICHAEL THOMAS, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON HILTON CHEONG-LEEN,
MR THOMAS SAID IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE TO PROVIDE A BREAKDOWN OF THE EXPENDITURE IN RESPECT OF PREVENTIVE EDUCATION AND PUBLICITY PROGRAMMES RELATING TO THE ABUSE OF NON-OP IATE PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES.
HE SAID: IN HONG KONG, THE MOST COMMONLY ABUSED DRUG IS HEROIN AND, FOR THIS REASON, THE MAIN THRUST OF PUBLICITY IS DIRECTED TOWARDS THE HEROIN PROBLEM,+
HE REMINDED MEMBERS THAT MEASURES DIRECTED SPECIFICALLY AT THE ABUSE OF PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES HAD BEEN OUTLINED BY THE ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL, MR FINDLAY, IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION IN THE COUNCIL ON MAY 21.
WITH REGARD TO CRISIS COUNSELLING, MR THOMAS SAID: +ABUSERS OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS WOULD PROBABLY NOT REALISE THAT A CRISIS SITUATION HAD ARISEN UNTIL EITHER THEY WERE IN URGENT NEED OF MEDICAL TREATMENT OR THE IR DRUG TAKING HAD LED THEM INTO SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES.+
IN THE FORMER CASE, HE SAID, COUNSELLING WOULD FORM PART OF THE TREATMENT AVAILABLE IN THE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL OR OUT-PATIENT SERVICE.
/IN THE
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