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Drug Abuse and Trafficking The government aims at effectively enforcing the law, especially against those involved in the supply and trafficking of illegal drugs; developing a comprehensive treatment and rehabilitation programme for drug abusers; discouraging people, in particular the young, from taking or experimenting with drugs; and eradicating drug abuse in the community. Data collected by the government's Central Registry of Drug Abuse, which were based on 30 000 reports on 17 500 persons, indicated that in 1997, 88 per cent of drug abusers were male and 12 per cent female, 53 per cent were aged over 30 years, 29 per cent were 21 to 30 years old and 18 per cent were aged under 21. The number of young drug abusers reported to the registry continued to drop in 1997. However, youngsters are still making up a high proportion of the newly reported cases. Of a total of 3...

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