G.F. 323 0003230
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Hong Kong stands ready to play its part. Smuggling operations within Hong Kong's boundaries, internal traffic and manufacture, and the prevention, cure and after-care of addiction here, are domestic matters, principally for local action. Those who engage in the business for profit will be pursued, while sufficiently large programmes of treatment for drug addicts will be developed to reduce substantially, and eventually to eradicate, drug abuse from the community.
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The four parts are nevertheless interdependent. Success in interdiction will be shortlived, and might even have very serious social consequences, if not coupled with adequate facilities for treatment. Facilities for treatment will not be much used if cheap and abundant supplies of drugs are available. Action is thus needed on all simultaneously, and on a continuing basis. The welfare of our community requires this, and the Government is determined to achieve it.
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