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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1989

HE SAID THE BEST OPPORTUNITIES LITTLE THINGS THAT WE DO IN OUR DAILY LIVES".

FOR

PRACTICE CAME FROM "THE

EXAMPLES

"IF YOU TAKE A GOOD LOOK AROUND YOU AND AT YOURSELF. SEE PLENTY OF GOOD

YOU WILL AND BAD EXAMPLES ATTITUDES.

OF CIVIC ACTS AND

"LET US CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS THIS SOCIETY THAT WE ALL LIVE IN BEING MORE CONSIDERATE TO OTHERS.

RY BY SHOWING FELLOW CITIZENS AND MORE

MORE CONCERN TO OUR COMPASSION TO THE HANDICAPPED AND THE UNDERPRIVILEGED," HE SAID.

AGED, THE YOUNG,

THE

INCREASE IN NUMBER OF DRUG-RELATED DEATHS

THERE HAS BEEN

AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF DRUG-RELATED DEATHS AND POLICE BELIEVE THE LOW PURITY OF NO. 3 HEROIN IS A MAJOR FACTOR.

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IT IS ALSO ACKNOWLEDGED THAT DIRECT USE

OF NO. 4 HEROIN BY LOCAL ADDICTS COULD LEAD TO FATALITIES, SENIOR STAFF OFFICER OF THE POLICE NARCOTICS BUREAU, MR YIP KWOK-KEUNG, TOLD MEMBERS OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF KWUN TONG THIS (FRIDAY) EVENING.

MR YIP SAID ACCORDING TO POLICE FIGURES, DRUG-RELATED DEATHS HAD RISEN FROM 65 CASES IN 1987 TO 85 CASES IN 1988, AND MORE SERIOUSLY. 85 SUCH CASES WERE RECORDED IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS THIS YEAR.

"

"PURITY LEVELS OF NO. 3 HEROIN, THE DRUG COMMONLY USED BY LOCAL ADDICTS, HAVE PLUMMETTED TO AS LOW AS ABOUT FIVE PER CENT, MR YIP SAID.

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OF

HE EXPLAINED THAT THE LOW PURITY CONTENT WAS A DIRECT RESULT DRUG TRAFFICKERS SEEKING MORE ATTRACTIVE PROFITS. SUBSTANCES WERE BEING ADDED MAKING DRUGS MORE LETHAL.

HARMFUL

GOLDEN

ON THE OTHER HAND, HE SAID, MANUFACTURERS FROM THE TRIANGLE HAD STOPPED PRODUCING HEROIN BASE AND CONCENTRATED ON NO. 4 HEROIN FORCING LOCAL ADDICTS TO TAKE THE HIGH-GRADED DRUG.

"BECAUSE THE AVERAGE ADDICT DOES NOT HAVE THE EXPERIENCE IN CONTROLLING THE DOSAGE OF NO. 4 HEROIN. THE PURITY OF WHICH VARIES, THIS RESULTS IN THE INCREASED DRUG-RELATED DEATHS,'

"

HE ADDED.

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