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"The video will be produced such that the presenter of the talk can pause at suitable moments to motivate students to think about what are the possible refusal skills/alternatives to drugs before proceeding to view the advice in the video."

The allocation of $2.5 million for ACAN's PE & P programmes for 1997/98 represents an increase of almost 12 per cent over the last year's allocation.

ACAN's PE&P Programme will continue to be supplemented by the central Anti-drug Publicity Campaign implemented by the Information Services Department. The publicity campaign will promote a drug-free lifestyle for young persons and educate them that there is no difference between "hard" and "soft" drugs in terms of harmful effects.

The campaign would comprise three new Television Announcements in the Public Interest (TV APIs), radio APIs, general posters and poster advertisements at MTR stations.

Meanwhile at the Research Sub-committee meeting held on March 12 (Wednesday), it was decided that an amount of $2 million would be allocated to carry out researches, which include, among others,

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A study on the factors affecting drug abuse trend in Hong Kong

A study on social cost of drug abuse in Hong Kong

A study to look into the situation of drug overdose in Hong Kong

A study on the employment problems of the Society for the Rehabilitation of Offenders clients who had ever taken drug and

Needs of ex-drug addicts.

Tertiary institutes and interested organizations would be invited to submit detailed proposals on these surveys.

Likewise the Treatment and Rehabilitation Sub-committee had issued the Three-Year Plan setting out the "Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Service in Hong Kong" to the non-government organizations, tertiary institutes and District Fight Crime Committees for information in early March. This document would provide a useful reference point for planning future provision of services for drug abusers.

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