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TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1990

LAST YEAR

ALMOST 1,000

KILOGRAMS OF

HEROIN AND OVER 400 KILOGRAMS OF CANNABIS WERE SEIZED IN HONG KONG AND 21 MAJOR SYNDICATES WERE NEUTRALISED THROUGH JOINT OPERATIONS WITH OVERSEAS AGENCIES, NOTED

HE

"THIS IS A

ACHIEVEMENT. REMARKABLE

THOSE INVOLVED DESERVE

CONGRATULATIONS," THE GOVERNOR SAID.

NOTING THAT THE UNITED NATIONS HAD DECLARED THE NEXT 10 AS THE DECADE AGAINST DRUG ABUSE, SIR DAVID SAID THIS SHOWED THAT WORLD NOW RECOGNISED THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE PROBLEM WE FACED.

"WE IN HONG KONG WILL CONTINUE TO PLAY OUR PART, BOTH AND IN THE WIDER INTERNATIONAL EFFORT."

YEARS

THE

LOCALLY

то THE

SIR DAVID PAID TRIBUTE TO DR GERALD CHOA, CHAIRMAN OF THE ACAN, MEMBERS OF THE ACTION COMMITTEE, AND ALL WHO HAD CONTRIBUTED CURRENT SUCCESS FOR ALL THEIR EXCELLENT WORK.

DAY

THE UNITED NATIONS HAD DECLARED TODAY AS THE INTERNATIONAL

ANTI-DRUG DAY FOR AGAINST DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT TRAFFICKING SHORT.

STRESSED THAT HIS COMMITTEE IN HIS WELCOMING SPEECH, DR CHOA HAD TAKEN SEVERAL COURSES OF ACTION AGAINST THE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE REPORTED TO BE ABUSING PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, YOUNG PEOPLE.

PARTICULARLY

ALL "A SURVEY ON THE ABUSE OF PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES COVERING

HONG KONG WILL BE SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTES IN CONDUCTED IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER,

"WE

HE SAID.

UP PREVENTIVE

EDUCATION

AND PUBLIC

STEPPED HAVE INFORMATION, PUBLICISING THE BENEFITS OF A DRUG-FREE LIFESTYLE.

PARTICULAR

"WE ARE STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, AND IN THE ROLE OF PARENTS, IN GUIDING THEIR CHILDREN AWAY FROM DRUGS.

ABOUT

"WE ARE PAYING SPECIAL ATTENTION TO INFORMING THE PUBLIC

AVAILABLE AND ENCOURAGING TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION FACILITIES THOSE IN NEED TO COME FORWARD FOR HELP."

DR

OR

CHOA SAID ACAN HAD LONG RECOGNISED THAT THERE WAS NO QUICK

SINGLE APPROACH SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF DRUG ABUSE, AND NO METHOD WAS EFFECTIVE ENOUGH TO DEAL WITH IT.

GOVERNMENT HE SAID HIS COMMITTEE WOULD CONTINUE TO ADVISE THE

ADDICTION, ΤΟ UNDERTAKE A WIDE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES TO SUPPRESS DRUG

ENACTMENT OF THE DRUG TRAFFICKING AND HE POINTED OUT THAT THE

WAS YET ANOTHER STEP (RECOVERY OF PROCEEDS) ORDINANCE LAST YEAR

FORWARD.

ΤΟ

SUPPORT THE

COMMEMORATE THE SILVER JUBILEE OF ACAN AND TO ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ANTI-DRUG DAY, AN EXHIBITION AT THE CITY HALL LOW BLOCK EXHIBITION HALL, CENTRAL, WILL BE OPEN TO THE (WEDNESDAY) AND ON THURSDAY.

PUBLIC

TOMORROW

/IT HAS