China exceeds 300 000 to addicted to drug and suffer from and obtain the methadone to maintain and treat

China exceeds 300,000 to addicted to drug and suffer from and obtain the methadone to maintain and treat
Cable of June 23 of Beijing of China News Service (reporter Zeng LiMing) By the end of March this year, 28 provinces, districts, cities in China Mainland have already opened methadone of 708 communities and kept treating the clinic, treat 306460 patients totally and is addicted to drug. Treating 124862 people at present, the clinic is managing 176 of number of people on average, the keeping rate is 70.9% every year. This is the figure that friend's professor of venereal disease and AIDS Wu Zun, director of centre of Chinese center for disease control reveals today. He claims at the notification meeting that Chinese Health Ministry holds, in order to contain the spreading of drugs, control AIDS that the drugs initiate to be prevailing, China kept treating to work to methadone of the addicts' community since 2004. The newest statistics reveal, from 2005 to 2010, find totally HIV sends and infects 645 newly in the heroin drug addict keeping treating the clinic to receive treatment in the methadone of community in the whole country, it is annual to send the infection rate newly as 0.38/100 of the people. According to guarding estimating, the methadone treatment has reduced HIV to take place and infect about 7000 people newly over the past 7 years. Keep treating the national-level person in charge of secretariat of work group as the community medicine, the intersection of Wu Zun and friend emphasize, drug addict's average amount of heroin used of every day before keeping treating according to participating in the methadone, buy drug money of drugs, raise drug money for every month while being average daily and take place steal, steal, vie for, deceive, take drug relevant illegal activities, calculate tentatively, the methadone treatment has reduced heroin to consume about 41.8 tons over the past 7 years, have reduced by about 25,810 million yuan of trade of the drugs, reduce the relevant vying for for about 5,300,000 times of criminal offence of deceiving etc. secretly of drugs; Also make 7500 drug addicts who accepted methadone treatment obtain and obtain employment. He says, calculates with therapeutic always absorbed 1,230 million yuan to methadone of central authorities and locality, what the average government puts into the drug money trade of avoiding 21 yuan in the society of 1 yuan each time and initiates from this is relevant to break laws and commit the crime. (End)

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