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Section 5 New-Generation Anti-drug Strategy

Origin of Policy

The Executive Yuan approved the “New-generation Anti-drug Strategy Action Framework”
on July 21, 2017 that combines the five major aspects, namely drug monitoring, drug prevention,

drug sweeps, drug rehabilitation treatment and strategies for amending laws and regulations of
the New-generation Anti-drug Strategy for 2017 through 2020, 4 years in total to strengthen
integration of functionalities across ministries and departments so that the government can
propose substantial anti-drug action plans to hopefully effectively reduce derivative crimes of
drug abusers, inhibit the increase in the population of new drug abusers, and protect the health of
the generation.

Implementation Measures

Different from traditional, serious, and dogmatic anti-drug campaigns in the past, the
Administration took advantage of the open data available from related ministries and departments
involved in the anti-drug operation of the government and applied the idea of citizen participation
to involve people in different fields. By means of technology and digitalization, the first hackathon
in the country with “prevention against illicit drugs” as its theme was organized (Figure 4-4).

Figure 4-4 2017 Anti-drug Hackathon

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