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Towards a Drug Free Generation
-- Roles and Responsibilities
of the Youth Organisations
By Mr.Wang Mingxue & Mr.Du Dong
All-China Youth Federation (ACYF)
27 June, 2008
Part Ⅰ
Challenges
the number of drug abusers become
larger in recent years
the officially recorded number of the drug
abusers in China was 148,000 in 1991
1.16 million in 2006.
accounting for around 70% of them are
young people below 35
Two serious problems among Chinese
young drug abusers
 the fast increase of young abusers in primary
and high schools.
gather in a regular place , incline to form
groups.
 high relapse rate of drug abuse.
Statistics shows that 90% of the recovered
retake drugs.
The kinds of drugs taken by young
abusers are verified
The abuse scale of traditional drugs like
opium, heroin, etc, tends to be stable, while
the abusers of some newly developed drugs,
such as ecstasy, marijuana, ice drug tablets,
rises rapidly in entertainment venues.
Part Ⅱ
Government’s role
Chinese government makes narcotics
control as basic policy
 takes preventing young people from drugs as the
foundation of the whole narcotics control work.
educate them to treasure the life and to reject drugs.
 views narcotics control as a complex and systematical
social project and a long-term strategic mission
utilizes measures in the areas of the laws, administration,
economy, culture, education and medical service and so on,
mobilizes and organizes the entire society to participate in
narcotics control.
 In 1997, the State Education Commission
officially brought the narcotics control education
into the curriculum outline of moral education
courses in elementary and middle schools,
and requested universities, middle schools,
elementary schools, citizen schools to provide
lectures and courses on narcotics control
education..
Steps of the narcotics control legislation
 In 1995, the State Council issued Compulsory
Detoxification Rules.
 In 1999, the Law on the Prevention of Juvenile
Delinquency was passed, on the foundation of the Law on
the Protection of Minors in 1992. The law emphasized
once again that young people must be protected from the
harm of narcotics.
 In 2003, the government started to draft the Law on
Narcotics Control. It was proved by National People’s
Congress in Dec,2007 and came into effect on June 1st
2008.
Law on Narcotics Control
Important milestone, human centered
Forced narcotics control model to
community based narcotics control model
Law on Narcotics Control
-- 3 phases
 Durg abusers under 16 and initial abusers will
receive treatments in communities instead of sent
to drug abuse treatment centers
 Retakers will be sent to drug abuse treatment
centers which separated from their own
communities
 Community recovery phase, their will be sent back
to their communities for psychological treatment
and living assitance given by social workers and
Part Ⅲ
Roles and Responsibilities
of the All-China Youth Federation
1. Strengthen the education on drug
prohibition, build an anti-drug atmosphere
in society
 Anti-drug work is a complex social project system with
publicity and education as its core．
 The local youth organizations of all levels use all means of
publicity to explain the danger of drug, and establish
education mechanism unifying the centralized publicity
and the regular education. During the ‘Anti-drug Month’,
the youth organizations visit schools, communities,
villages, towns and streets to remind the youth to keep
away from drug by exhibitions, performances, knowledge
competitions and ceremonies.
 In recent years, the local youth federations are actively
participating the building of ‘drug-free community’ with
the theme of ‘Youth, Keep Away from Drug’.
 Continue to promote drug-free community. The local youth
organizations utilize the Youth Centers, Youth Law
Schools, Youth Palaces, 12355 Youth Service Hotline and
Youth Rights & Interests Protection Service Station as
platforms to carry out perennial anti-drug publicity and
training, informing the youth with drug rejecting and
preventing knowledge, improving their ability of drug
resistance.
 Some organizations open anti-drug lessons and anti-drug
training classes in the youth law schools to improve the
teaching level of anti-drug teachers and to popularize antidrug knowledge.
2. Continue to cultivate anti-drug volunteer
teams, ensure a persistent development of
anti-drug work
 Volunteers are the main force of youth anti-drug publicity
and education. The local youth federations recruit lots of
volunteers from the civil society to promote the anti-drug
volunteer movement, which put great vigor into the antidrug battle.
 The volunteers are divided into small groups and sent to
communities to introduce anti-drug work and new type
drug prevention method to young people and the public.
 Teachers, doctors, lawyers, media and social workers are
also recruited as volunteers to carry out ‘one-helps-one’
program. The program aims to help the youth involved in
drug abuse or misbehaved to realized the harm of drug,
and to feel the warmth from the society by a series of
activities, such as providing living assistance, learning
environment and psychological tutorship.
 Since 2005, Guangxi Autonomous Regional Youth
Federation has been cooperating with Lang Son and Cao
Bang provinces, Vietnam to carry out joint anti-drug
volunteer movement along the border.
3. Enrich the content and improve the quality
of anti-drug publicity and education
 ACYF, National Anti-drug Leading Group together with
China Youth Online have opened ‘Youth Away from Drug’
website in 2003, and established an ‘Online Museum on
Youth Anti-drug Education’.
With its authority, rich content, interactive mode and
shocking facts, the website has attracted great amount of
youth, and became a perennial online anti-drug classroom.
Up till now, the visit quantity has exceeded 1.4 million
person-times.
 local youth federations hold essay competitions,
knowledge competitions, cultural performances,
visiting to Drug Abuse Treatment Centers and
‘Anti-drug self-educate’ activities to form the selfprotection consciousness and drug-resist ability
among youth.
 local Youth Federations have also conducted
activity of choosing the ‘Campus Anti-drug
Ambassador’.
4. Participating in the consultation of
narcotics control legislation
In 1992, Law on the Protection of Minors.
In 1999, Law on the Prevention of Juvenile
Delinquency.
In 2007, Law on Narcotics Control.
Thank you!
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