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controlled drugs Gold Award

Section 3 Domestic Drug Abuse Investigation

Origin of Policy

Drug abuse jeopardizes the national health and undermines social order; it has become
an important social and public health issue. To effectively prevent against drug abuse, the
Administration has created a drug abuse monitoring mechanism to help collect drug abuse
incidents reported through healthcare facilities and other statistics such as drug abuse urine
tests, tests performed with non-urine specimens in suspicious drug and controlled drug cases
and uncovered drugs. After analysis and compilation, the monthly “drug abuse cases and tests
statistics” is prepared and provided to respective ministries, departments and health authorities

throughout the country for their reference.
In light of the fact that NPS are getting more and more popular, in order to monitor and
prevent against abuse of NPS concurrently with the international society, the Administration
started this year to compare and contrast NPS reported through the “United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crimes Early Warning Advisory System” and the items detected by and reported by
drug authentication institutions throughout the country through the Administration’s “Drug Abuse
Test Reporting System” in order to reflect the status of abuse of such NPS in the country and

related statistical charts such as “National detected status of NPS” to serve as reference while anti-
drug strategies are being stipulated in Taiwan.

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