Government determined to beat drug abuse
The Government will take a lead to work with the private sector, educationists, social workers and non-governmental organisations in a bid to develop a first-rate programme to beat drug abuse.
The determination was reiterated by the Governor, the Rt Hon Christopher Patten, after he visited a Life Education Centre today (Tuesday).
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"I think there is a great commitment right across the community to do more to beat drugs and to reduce the amount of drug abuse in the community," he said.
At a summit earlier this month, the Government launched a new programme committing extra resources in manpower and cash to the fight against drug abuse.
"One of the earliest things that we'll be doing is reviewing the ideas that came up during the summit and reporting on which of those ideas we intend to carry forward and to translate into action and into policy," Mr Patten said.
Noting that education has a particularly crucial role to play in preventing and reducing drug abuse, he said that was why he started his series of visits with a visit to the Life Education Centre.
Life education provides a progressively graded preventive drug education programme for children aged between five and 12 years.
End/Tuesday, March 28, 1995
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