China issues drug rehabilitation regulation

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　　The regulation took effect Sunday as a supplement of the country's anti-drug law that was implemented² three years ago.

　　Drug users who voluntarily receive intervention³ programs "will be exempt⁴ from punishment," said the regulation, promulgated⁵ on the 24th International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit⁶ Trafficking, which falls on Sunday.

　　With seven chapters and 46 articles, it also stipulates⁷ the rights and obligations of drug addicts⁸, as well as supporting measures for voluntary, community-based, and government-ordered drug rehabilitation.

　　Up to date, more than two million Chinese have been receiving compulsive rehabilitation or treatment, statistics show. However, many of them find it difficult to completely give up the addiction⁹.

　　The regulation, aiming to explore effective ways to curb¹⁰ drug use, calls for boosting "the role of communities and families" in helping¹¹ reduce drug users' dependency on narcotics¹².

　　It asks rehabilitation centers to provide addicts with consulting services and education on the prevention of HIV/AIDS and other contagious¹³ diseases.

　　Efforts should be made to "boost pharmaceutical¹⁴ management" so as to prevent loss or abuse of psychotropic substances and narcotics, the regulation says.

　　The regulation also stipulates on the protection of drug addicts' personal information, saying "members of the police, judiciary and health departments who cause the leak of personal information must be punished."

　　The regulation has solicited¹⁵ public comments before it was released.

　　Transnational drug trafficking remains¹⁶ rampant¹⁷ in China, particularly in southwestern border regions of Yunnan and Guangxi.

　　A report issued last month by China's National Narcotics Control Commission said authorities investigated 89,000 drug-related crimes and arrested 101,000 suspects last year.

　　Law enforcers confiscated¹⁸ 5.3 metric tonnes of heroin¹⁹ and one metric tonne of opium²⁰ in 2010, the report said, adding that intervention programs were used to treat and rehabilitate²¹ some 175,000 drug addicts last year.（本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑）

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