The Prevention Of Drug Abuse

Since the eighties of the 20th century, the anti-drug departments of our country have carried out the crack down on drug abuse to the end and kept the high-handed measure on the drug related crimes. But we still must face the grim situation of the anti-drug movement, which can be manifested in the following points:First of all, there are enormous drug addicts in our country, who become younger in average age. By the end of 2003, the registered drug addicts are 1.053 million, and 72.2% of them are under 35 years old. What' more, this statistics doesn't include the unregistered drug addicts who are 4-7 times more than the registered ones.Secondly, the drug related region is enlarging and the social class of those drug addicts becomes more and more complex. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Pubic Security, all the provinces(autonomous regions , municipalities directly under the Central Government) of the main land all have the drug problems, and the drug related counties(cities , districts)has been up to 2148. There are 214 counties have comparatively critical problems since the registered drug addicts are more than 1000 in each of them.Thirdly, the crimes of drug smuggling , trafficking , transporting and manufacturing are still rampant, and drug related crimes such as prostitution , stealing , robbery are very common. The relationship between drug taking and drug smuggling , trafficking, transporting and manufacturing is coexisted and interacting. Since the drug suppliers can't be rooted out, so we can't wipe out the crime of drug trafficking and drug taking off our country. Conversely, the large consumers in the domestic drug market and big profit generated from it will increase the crimes of drug smuggling , trafficking , transporting and manufacturing. Although the anti-drug forces fight against those crimes hardly, but under the circumstance of the globalization and liveliness of drug related crimes, it is still a day dreaming to say that we can root out drug related crimes in a short period of time in China singularly.And then, the drug taking is a very costly continuous consuming action. Tortured by the strong drug addiction, in order to get the money paid for the drug as soon as possible, those drug addicts doom to steal or robber, prostitute, even traffic drug just to make the money to buy drug, after they fail to get money from their friends, relatives or families. And what they have done causes lots of trouble to the whole society. Judging from the survey, 70~75% of those drug addicts have crime records.The fifth is the inefficiency of the work of the anti-drug officers and the low proportion of the compulsory drug taking giving up. Actually the way on which our drug giving up agencies work is just a blind alley: some drug addicts are put into the agencies, but there are still many of them linger on the street, and then, somebody release from the agency, the others are put into again, just like a endless circles. No way out.Finally, the system of propaganda and education of the prevention of drug abuse is not so scientific, which leads to the poor ends. Generally speaking, we just failed to mobilize the enthusiasm of the masses.Therefore, in order to cope with the changeable drug related crimes and drug taking, how do we set up an efficient system to wage a war to prevent the drug abuse? How do we standardize and improve the drug giving up system? How do we correct the lagging of anti-drug policies and law making? We can learn the importance of concerning research and practice from the above questions.Generally speaking, the prevention of a conduct compromises the prevention before committing the conduct, and the whole process of controlling and restraining the conduct. And most important is the prevention before conducting. Seeing that there are lots of unsolved difficulties in the process of giving up and rehabilitation of the drug taking, the prevention beforehand come to be more and more crucial, where lies in the importance of the research of the prev...