TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1993
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ARE REMINDED OF THE DANGERS OF EXPERIMENTING WITH DRUGS, WHICH CAN LEAD TO DEPENDENCY, DEGRADATION AND DEATH.
TURNING TO TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION,
HE SAID THERE WERE THREE MAJOR PUBLICLY-FUNDED PROGRAMMES IN HONG KONG: A COMPULSORY PLACEMENT PROGRAMME, OPERATED BY THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, FOR CONVICTED CRIMINALS WHO WERE ALSO DRUG ADDICTS; A VOLUNTARY OUT-PATIENT METHADONE PROGRAMME, PROVIDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH; AND A VOLUNTARY IN-PATIENT TREATMENT PROGRAMME RUN BY THE SOCIETY FOR THE AID AND REHABILITATION OF DRUG ABUSERS.
"IN ADDITION, A COUNSELLING CENTRE, KNOWN AS PS 33, HAS BEEN SET UP BY THE HONG KONG CHRISTIAN SERVICE TO PROVIDE A SERVICE FOR PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCE ABUSERS, HE ADDED.
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MR SINCLAIR STRESSED THAT HONG KONG'S FIGHT AGAINST DRUG AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE WAS NOT ONE WHICH THE
COULD WIN
SINGLE-HANDEDLY.
GOVERNMENT
"WE NEED THE SUPPORT OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY. THE BATTLE AGAINST DRUGS IS NEVER-ENDING AND REQUIRES CONSTANT EFFORT, HE SAID.
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PYRKE APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF MARINE
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THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED THAT MR A C PYRKE, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF MARINE, HAD BEEN APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT WITH EFFECT FROM TODAY (TUESDAY).
MR PYRKE, AGED 59, JOINED THE HONG KONG CIVIL SURVEYOR OF SHIPS IN 1968.
SERVICE AS A
1984
HE WAS PROMOTED TO SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF SHIPS IN RETITLED AS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF MARINE IN 1987) AND DIRECTOR OF MARINE IN 1990.
MR PYRKE HAS ACTED AS DIRECTOR ON PREVIOUS OCCASIONS.
(WHICH WAS ΤΟ DEPUTY
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