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(a) To advise the Governor on the policies to be adopted

to interdict the illicit traffic in dangerous drugs into and through Hong Kong and to keep these policies under regular review.

(b) to advise the Governor on the measures necessary to

eradicate drug abuse from the ccmmunity.

(c) to these ends to be the channel for advice to the

Governor on the appropriate allocation of resources to ensure the implementation of Government's policies. (d) to ensure co-ordination and co-operation between Government Departments and Voluntary Agencies in Hong Kong working towards the implementation of these policies and to enlist public support for them. to keep under review programmes and projects being undertaken by Government and Voluntary Agencies directed at implementing Government's policies to ensure that they are effective.

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(f) to draw the attention of Government to those policies,

programmes, projects, laws and procedures which in the

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opinion of the Council should be changed in order to

implement Government's policies more effectively.

(g) to advise on any matter referred to it by Government,

or from any other appropriate source, which may be concerned either directly or indirectly with the implementation of Government's policies.

While these Terms of Reference are necessarily wide so as to achieve the maximum of centralized direction of policy, the Committee will not be responsible for or concerned with the day- to-day operational or administrative running of any Government department or voluntary agency in its pursuit of spproved policy.

Drug Addiction Treatment and Research Division - Medical and Health Department (D.4.T.R.D.)

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It is recommended that there should be established a Drug Addiction Treatment and Research Division within the Medical and

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