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Reinforced Management
over Controlled Drugs
and Prevention Against
Drug Abuse
To guide the proper use of controlled Section 1
drugs and prevent drug abuse, TFDA has
established a mechanism for monitoring Promote Amendment
drug abuse trends, collecting domestic and to the Regulations
international information, and providing on Controlled Drugs
reference for the Ministry of Justice while and Diversion
the latter adds or revises the list of controlled Management
substances. When illicit drugs included by the
Ministry of Justice in the control are needed ▍ Introduction of the Policy
medically and scientifically, they will be
subject to the “Controlled Drugs Act.” The To prevent and curb the abuse or
Executive Yuan also enforces multiple anti- illegal use of controlled drugs, the relevant
drug measures and enhances education on the regulations of the “Controlled Drugs Act”
prevention of substance abuse. Meanwhile, are periodically reviewed and amended, and
technologies to help detect new psychoactive international trends are closely monitored
substances and substance abuse are developed through exchange, while enforcing inspections
and the drug spectrum database is expanded on the distribution of controlled drugs.
in addition to technical exchange with the Meanwhile, auditing over the circulation of
authorities to jointly fight against illicit drugs. controlled drugs is enforced.
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