Below is one of the hot questions arisen in Public Examinations F.5 to F.7 in Hong Kong recently!!

I’m going to give a presentation on the following subject.

Drug addiction in Hong Kong- is it dangerous and how it affects the young people in Hong Kong? How can the society help them?

Terrifying topic : the drug addiction in Hong Kong is dangerous. It affects the youngsters in Hong Kong in a disaster way. Many innocent boys and girls take drugs. There're much help from the society to lend a hand, however, some young people do not cherish them. Shocking, isn't it?

Triad societies and criminal syndicate are soaking into the primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong nowadays. Of course, there are other places being damaged by these illicit societies in Hong Kong. They take the advantages of the youngsters' curiosity, vanity, self-destruction, depression to bring them to the lure. Although the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government has launched various kinds of effective measure to draw away the bad elements, the result is not desirable. A great pity, isn't it?

The HKPF and HA have shouldered the problem hand-in-hand. The Hong Kong Police Force cracks down on crime. The Hospital Authority launches campaigns to remind the youngsters to keep aloof from the drug. There are a lot of advertising programmed against drug addiction shown on TV, radio, internet, clubs, schools, colleges, universities ….etc. Concerned posters are also held everywhere in public areas. The HKPF give talks in commercial centers, plazas, parks. Their slogan is that the narcotics are harmful to our health which may lead to death. Some slogans are really smart and active, such as
'Taking drugs? Eating dirt!’
'Stand hard! Say no to drug, refuse drug’
'Stand firm! Knock Drugs Out.’
'Say No to nightmare!’
'Not Now Not Ever.’
'Please call 186186 for help.’
Ultimately, some of those taking drugs may go to Hei Ling Chau Addiction Treatment Centre for cure.

The Education Bureau educates youngsters in some ways of telling them about the danger the drug will bring to them. There are medical checks for students coming to schools, too. The narcotic drug, which is a destructive medicine, may affect their brains and urge them to do things unintentionally and wrongly which, sometimes, are risky to their lives. Once the youngsters take drug, their career is stopped up. They're without dignity. They’ll capture every possible means to gain the drug. Upon their becoming to a poorer and poorer situation; finally without any money, they'll trapped themselves into the burrows of theft, liar, robbery, committed suicide and other negative circumstances.

Last but not the least is that we must teach the youngsters to change their attitudes to life. Positive thinking, hope, dream, love are excellent, very beneficial, and important. It is revealed in the well known old saying by Sir Bertrand Russell, the twentieth century world-famous psychologist, that ‘The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge’ has much truth of it.

What a worrying fact we must pay attention to!

Thank you.

Mary.