Beijing Experiments with New Drug-relief Therapy

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Beijing Experiments with New Drug-relief Therapy

Drug addicts in Beijing are to be offered the narcotics substitute, adanon, in a pilot project to combat drug abuse and the spread of Aids, Beijing Daily reports Friday.

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Drug addicts in Beijing are to be offered the narcotics substitute, adanon, in a pilot project to combat drug abuse and the spread of Aids, Beijing Daily reports Friday.

The therapy allows drug addicts to take fixed amounts of adanonunder the surveillance of police to alleviate their addictions. The therapy had been tried in many other countries.

Adanon, an opium-related medicine, is an analgesic, a state-controlled drug which is normally used in medical operations.

It was hoped the therapy would control the spread of Aids as adanon was taken orally rather than injected with a potentially unhygenic hypodermic needle, a doctor said.

The National Narcotics Control Commission (NNCC) says the number of registered drug addicts in China reached one million by the end of 2002, an 11 percent rise over 2001. Beijing police recorded 6,500 drugs-related cases, arresting 7,000 drug dealers, in 2002.

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