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reasonable time. The review should be wide ranging and the Committee might be invited to consider in

particular :-

(a) whether the Prisons Department should

(b)

(c)

continue to treat persons convicted solely of minor drug offences (who are social misfits rather than criminals);

if the answer to (a) is that the Prisons Department should not, then what arrangements should be made to treat this category of

offenders;

whether persons sentenced to imprisonment

for offences of all kinds who are found to

be addicts whilst in custody should be obliged

to undergo a course of treatment before they

are released;

(d) what provision should be made to cure opium addicts who are now invariably fined by the

Courts because prison sentences are regarded as inappropriate and treatment facilities barely exist;

(e)

(£)

whether Government should build any more Tai Lam type drug treatment centres; whether the length of time addicts now spend in Prisons Department treatment

centres should be reduced to increase

throughput even at the risk of higher

relapse rates;

(g)

the role of SARDA in the programmes which may be recommended for treating addicts

(h)

en masse and the programmes it should offer; whether DPAS should continue to operate

drug treatment programmes;

(i) methadone maintenance as a possible mass

cure for opiate addiction;

(j) the after-care arrangements necessary for

each programme of treatment recommended and

the length of after-care to be given with each programme.

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