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Reinforced Management over Controlled 4
Drugs and Prevention Against Drug
Abuse
in urine testing of illegal drugs. Meanwhile, the “Guide to Site Visit to Substance Abuse
TFDA compiles the statistics such as drug Urine Testing Institutions” on September 27,
abuse reported by healthcare facilities, urine 2022, with the addition of the requirement
testing for drug abuse, non-urine specimen for applying mass spectrometry to initial
testing for suspected illicit drug and controlled test validation and revision of the technical
drug abuse, and confiscation of illicit drugs requirement for quality control in an effort to
on a monthly basis, and prepares the “Drug fulfill current test technology and practical
Abuse Cases and Testing Statistics” in order to needs. It will be enforced on January 1, 2023.
effectively monitor and control NPSs.
III. Non-urine (Drug) testing and
▍ Implementation Strategy reporting upon drug abuse
I. Reporting mechanism for According to the division of labor table
healthcare facilities on drug in drug testing of the Ministry of Justice,
abuse there are 15 agencies (institutions) in Taiwan
at present to help prosecutors, police and
TFDA built the Drug Abuse Reporting investigation units test non-urine specimens
System (DARS) to receive information for drug abuse. As is required by the
reported monthly by healthcare facilities in the “Enforcement Rules of the Narcotics Hazard
country on drug abuse cases. Prevention Act,” respective test agencies
(institutions) shall report drug test results
II. Advancement in the to the Urine Test for Drug Abuse Reporting
management of accredited System (UDARS) on a monthly basis. TFDA
testing institution for drug will then count the tested positive results
abuse urine tests of non-urine specimens of suspected illicit
drugs and controlled drug cases and provide a
To meet the demand for substance reference for the development of drug control
abuse testing and monitoring over the past strategies by various departments.
few years and to reflect the revisions made
to the “Regulations Governing Accreditation IV. Emerging department drug
and Management of Drug Abuse Urine abuse surveillance
Testing and Medical Institutions” and the
“Regulations Governing Drug Abuse Urine In 2022, TFDA continued to commission
Testing Operations,” TFDA finished amending the “Monitoring Plan for NPS in Emergency
Departments (ED)” to conduct expanded
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