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Ministry of Health
and Welfare
Science Center

National Police Agency, Ministry of
Ministry of Education Ministry of Justice Ministry of the Interior
Ministry of the Interior Health and Welfare
Single counter Criminal case Drug Abuse Reporting Household registration
Student drug abuse records handling
consultation and service system for System (No ID) system
management system drug addicts system
Urine Test for Drug
Statistics of drugs Urine test subject Abuse Reporting
Dropout student intercepted (No ID) sampling and System (No ID)
reporting system disposal system
Administration 1. National Health
Schedule 3 and
system Insurance database
Schedule 4 drugs
administrative 2. High risk children
Criminal case penalty system and youths
3. Drug addicts and
system
AIDS
4. Protection Database
Alternative therapy management
system in medical institutions

Figure 2-3-2 Integration of narcotics and drug abuse reporting system database from multiple departments

3. Establishment of Technology and Database for Drug Abuse
In response to the deteriorating drug abuse and addiction issues, TFDA continues to dedicate
the developing new technology and establishing databases to achieve the prevention
effectively and control of drug abuse. Important outcomes of 2015 are listed in Table 2-3-3.

Table2-3-3 Major achievements of drug abuse assay technologies and
database establishment in 2015.

Results Benefits
Completed the synthesis of 13 standards, including Established standards and spectrum
five synthetic cannabinoids, six aminophenones, two database for comparing test results and
stimulants ,phenazepam, and establishment standard meet the techniques for drug abuse.
spectrum database.
Established the 96-well solid phase extraction plate for Accelerated the development and
urine pre-treatment and UPLC-Q-LIT mass spectrometer optimization of systematic techniques for
and developed a high performance assay to 210 abuse drug abuse.
drugs in urine.

Established a pre-treatment technique for solid phase
extraction and GC-MS/MS quantitative urine assays for To accelerate analysis time for synthetic
38 drugs that include synthetic cathinones and synthetic cathinones and synthetic phencyclidines.
phencyclidines.

Section 4. Preventing the Abuse of Controlled Drugs

Current Status
Drug abuse and addiction issues have recently became a crucial problem that is in urgent
need of solution by the health agencies of government. Drug abuse can easily harm personal
health, even lead to mental problems, and also increased unemployment rate and crime which
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