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SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1987

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PUBLIC URGED NOT TO ABUSE DRUGS

MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TODAY (SUNDAY) URGED BY THE MULLOY, NOT TO ABUSE DRUGS.

AND

YOUNG PEOPLE IN COMMISSIONER FOR

PARTICULAR

MR NARCOTICS,

WERE GARETH

MAKING THE APPEAL AT THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT ANTI-NARCOTICS BEACH CONCERT AT REPULSE BAY, MR MULLOY NOTED THAT MANY YOUNG PEOPLE

DRUGS BECAUSE ABUSED PSYCHOTROPIC

OF CURIOSITY AND PEER GROUP

PRESSURE.

ON HONG KONG'S DRUG SITUATION, MR MULLOY REVEALED THAT THE CONTINUED PROBLEM OF HEROIN ABUSE HAD BEEN CONTAINED AS A RESULT OF A AND CONCERTED EFFORT FROM THE COMMUNITY AND THE GOVERNMENT.

IN VIEW OF THE RECENT UPSURGING TREND OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG AROUSING ABUSE, MR MULLOY SAID THIS YEAR'S PUBLICITY WAS TARGETTED AT THE PUBLIC TO BE ON THE ALERT AGAINST THE DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS OF ABUSING PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES.

PROVED

THE COMMISSIONER CALLED UPON PARENTS ΤΟ EXERCISE ON THEIR CHILDREN PROPER CARE WHICH

TO BE AN EFFECTIVE DEFENCE IN PREVENTING YOUNG PEOPLE FROM GOING ASTRAY.

THE CONCERT WHICH ALSO MARKED THE OPENING OF THE SOUTHERN

CAMPAIGN DISTRICT ANTI-DRUG

WAS JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE ACTION COMMITTEE AGAINST NARCOTICS, THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE AND THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OFFICE.

THE COMMISSIONER SAID THAT IT WAS HOPED THAT THROUGH THE CONCERT, ANTI-DRUG MESSAGES COULD BE DISSEMINATED TO

TO THE ESPECIALLY THOSE YOUTHS WHO WERE MOST VULNERABLE TO DRUG ABUSE.

BEACH PUBLIC

IN ADDITION TO THE SOUTHERN AND TUEN MUN DISTRICTS, DISTRICT ANTI-NARCOTICS CAMPAIGNS WILL BE LAUNCHED IN SHAM SHUI PO AND YAU MA TEI DISTRICTS LATER THIS YEAR.

OBJECTIVES OF DISTRICT ANTI-DRUG COMPAIGNS ARE NOT ONLY TO CREATE PUBLIC AWARENESS IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE DRUG MENACE, BUT ALSO TO HELP PREPARE YOUNG PEOPLE TO LEAD A MEANINGFUL LIFE FREE FROM THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS.

OF

TODAY'S TWO-HOUR LONG CONCERT, BROADCAST LIVE BY RADIO 2, ATTRACTED TENS OF THOUSANDS

BEACH-GOERS WHO AFTERNOON OF MUSIC WHILST BASKING IN THE SUNSHINE.

ALSO PRESENT WERE MR SIMON LORD, DISTRICT AND MR KAN MAN-LEE, CHAIRMAN OF THE SOUTHERN DFCC.

COMMERCIAL SHARED AN

OFFICER

(SOUTHERN)

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