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Implementation Measures

1. Reporting mechanism for healthcare facilities on drug abuse

Healthcare facilities are encouraged to report patients they receive with inappropriate
or excessive use of addictive substances. The information to be reported includes the type,
consumption method and where it is acquired, among others. The abuse information is reported to
the Administration’s “Controlled Drug Abuse Reporting Information System” on a monthly basis.

2. Management and reporting of approved institutions for drug

abuse urine tests

Article 33-1 of the “Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act” requires and authorizes that the
former Department of Health to stipulate and announce the Regulations Governing Accreditation

and Management of Drug Abuse Urine Testing and Medical Institutions, the Regulations
Governing Drug Abuse Urine Testing Operations and the Standards Governing the Drug Abuse
Urine Testing Laboratories Established by Government Agencies in 2003 in order to specifically
govern management of drug abuse urine testing and medical institutions and improve quality of
tests performed at such institutions.
In order to enhance the quality of drug abuse urine tests performed by approved institutions,
15 of them were routinely accredited in 2017 and 10 were inspected from time to time. In
addition, routine performance tests occurred once a quarter and four times in total per institution
and 56 times combined for the approved institutions.

Testing institutions report test results periodically, on a monthly basis, to the
Administration’s Drug Abuse Test Reporting System for the Administration to produce the
monthly statistics.

3. Non-urine (Drug) testing and reporting upon drug abuse

There are many institutions throughout the country at present to help prosecution, police
and investigation authorities test non-urine specimens for uncovered drugs. According to the
division of labor in drug testing under the Prosecutors Office for Taiwan High Court, by the end
of 2017, there had been 8 drug testing institutions in northern, 1 in central, 3 in southern and 1 in
eastern parts of Taiwan. The Administration produces statistics of positive results with non-urine
specimens for suspicious drug and controlled drug cases on a monthly basis and provide it to

respective ministries and departments for their reference.

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