OBJECTIVES
12.1 Services for drug abusers aim at helping drug abusers to abstain from their drug-taking habits and re-integrate into the community through community-based and residential services. Preventive programmes to educate young people and the public on harmful effects of drug abuse are also provided.
 
SERVICE PROVISION
12.2

The service provision as at 31 March 2011 is as follows:

 
 
(a)

14 Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Centres

 
(b)

11 Counselling Centres for Psychotropic Substance Abusers

 
(c)

2 Centres for Drug Abusers, Ex-drug Abusers and their Family Members

 

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PERIOD
Drug Dependent Persons Treatment and Rehabilitation Centres (Licensing) Ordinance, Cap. 566
12.3 The Drug Dependent Persons Treatment and Rehabilitation Centres (Licensing) Ordinance, Cap. 566, aims at ensuring that drug dependent persons will receive services in a properly managed and physically secure environment. Under this Ordinance, all treatment centres are regulated by licences or certificates of exemption (the latter is only applicable to treatment centres which existed before the commencement of the Ordinance, i.e. 1 April 2002). In 2009-10 and 2010-11, the Social Welfare Department issued or renewed licences/certificates of exemption to 40 government-subvented or self-financing and non-profit-making treatment centres according to the aforesaid Ordinance with the distribution as shown in Chart 22 below.
 
 
Counselling Centres for Psychotropic Substance Abusers
12.4 The Counselling Centres for Psychotropic Substance Abusers (CCPSAs) aim at providing counselling and assistance to habitual/occasional/potential psychotropic substance abusers and young people who are at risk with a view to assisting them to abstain from using psychotropic substance and develop a healthy lifestyle. To help early identification of psychotropic substance abusers and motivate them to seek early rehabilitation services, all the CCPSAs have been allocated additional recurrent resources to launch on-site medical support service since October 2009. This comprises one Registered Nurse (Psychiatric) on site and resources for procurement of medical support services from the community ranging from body checks, drug tests and motivational interviews to drug related consultation. To address the upsurge in youth drug abuse, four new CCPSAs with on-site medical support service have been set up since October 2010, making a total of 11 CCPSAs over the territory to tie in with the administrative districts of the SWD. The enhanced services strengthen district-based anti-drug collaboration amongst various stakeholders.