International Journal of Drug Policy
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 149-154 , May 2010

Looking for a solution for drug addiction in China: Exploring the challenges and opportunities in the way of China's new Drug Control Law

  • Yu Liu

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
    • ,
  • Juncheng Liang

      Affiliations

    • National Institute on Drug Dependence, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
    • ,
  • Chengzheng Zhao

      Affiliations

    • National Institute on Drug Dependence, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
    • ,
  • Wenhua Zhou

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
    • Ningbo Addiction Treatment and Research Center, Ningbo 315010, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, Ningbo Addiction Treatment and Research Center, School of Medicine, Ningbo University, 42 Xibei Road, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315010, China. Tel.: +86 574 87282380; fax: +86 574 87345976.

Received 20 July 2009 ,Revised 5 October 2009 ,Accepted 8 October 2009.

References 

  1. Allgulander C. Psychoactive drug use in a general population sample, Sweden: Correlates with perceived health, psychiatric diagnoses, and mortality in an automated record-linkage study. American Journal of Public Health. 1989;79(8):1006–1010
  2. Annual Report on Drug Control in China. (2006). National Narcotic Control Commission, Beijing.
  3. Cami J, Farre M. Drug addiction. New England Journal of Medicine. 2003;349(10):975–986
  4. Caulkins JP, Reuter P. Setting goals for drug policy: Harm reduction or use reduction?. Addiction. 1997;92(9):1143–1150
  5. Devaney, M., Reid, G., & Baldwin, S. (2006). Situational Analysis of Drug Issues and Responses in the Asia Pacific Region. Prepared for Australian National Council on Drugs Asia Pacific Drug Issues Committee.
  6. Dikotter F, Lasmann L, Zhou X. Narcotic culture: A history of drugs in China. The University of Chicago Press; 2004;
  7. DuPont RL, Voth EA. Drug legalization, harm reduction, and drug policy. Annals of Internal Medicine. 1995;123(6):461–465
  8. Engelsman EL. Dutch policy on the management of drug-related problems. British Journal of Addiction. 1989;84(2):211–218
  9. Fang YX, Wang YB, Shi J, Liu ZM, Lu L. Recent trends in drug abuse in China. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica. 2006;27(2):140–144
  10. Galea S, Nandi A, Viahov D. The social epidemiology of substance use. Epidemiologic Reviews. 2004;2(1):36–52
  11. Garten RJ, Lai S, Zhang J, Liu W, Chen J, Vlahov D, et al. Rapid transmission of hepatitis C virus among young injecting heroin users in Southern China. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2004;33:182–188
  12. Hammett TM, Wu Z, Duc TT, Stephens D, Sullivan S, Liu W, et al. ’Social evils’ and harm reduction: The evolving policy environment for human immunodeficiency virus prevention among injection drug users in China and Vietnam. Addiction. 2008;103(1):137–145
  13. He N, Detels R. The HIV epidemic in China: History, response, and challenge. Cell Research. 2005;15(11–12):825–832
  14. IHRD . Harm reduction developments 2008. New York: International Harm Reduction Development Program of Open Society Institute; 2008;
  15. Jennings JM. Opium regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952. Journal of World History. 2004;14:269–271
  16. Laniel L. The relationship between research and drug policy in the United States. Management of Social Transformations; 1999;
  17. Leshner AI. Science-based views of drug addiction and its treatment. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1999;282(14):1314–1316
  18. Leshner AI. Science is revolutionizing our view of addiction—And what to do about it. American Journal of Psychiatry. 1999;156(1):1–3
  19. Leshner AI, Koob GF. Drugs of abuse and the brain. Proceedings of the Association of American Physicians. 1999;111(2):99–108
  20. Li SY, Huang Y. A study on the System of Compulsory Abandonment of Drug Habits in China. Journal of Political Science and Law. 2005;22(3):72
  21. Li M, Liu ZM, Zhao D. Drug use and drug dependence. Beijing: China Science and Technical Publishing House; 1991;
  22. Li X, Stanton B, Zhou Y. Injection drug use and unprotected sex among institutionalized drug users in China. Journal of Drug Issues. 2000;30:663
  23. Liu Z, Lian Z, Zhao C. Drug use and HIV/AIDS in China. Drug and Alcohol Review. 2006;25:173–175
  24. Lowinger P. How the People's Republic of China solved the drug abuse problem. American Journal of Chinese Medicine (Gard City, N.Y.). 1973;1(2):275–282
  25. Lowinger P. The solution to narcotic addiction in the People's Republic of China. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. 1977;4(2):165–178
  26. Lu L, Fang Y, Wang X. Drug abuse in China: Past, present and future. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology. 2008;28(4):479–490
  27. Lu L, Wang X. Drug addiction in China. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2008;1141:304–317
  28. Lu L, Zhao D, Bao YP, Shi J. Methadone maintenance treatment of heroin abuse in China. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. 2008;34(2):127–131
  29. Luo J, Yang F, Li J-H, Zhu H. Peer education on harm reduction in intravenous users in Kunming. Chinese Mental Health Journal. 2002;16(2.):112–115
  30. Peck DF, Plant MA. Unemployment and illegal drug use: Concordant evidence from a prospective study and national trends. British Medical Journal. 1986;293:929–932
  31. Rou KM, Wu ZY. Promoting universal access of AIDS programs for drug using population in China. Chinese Journal of Drug Dependence. 2009;18(3):172–174
  32. Ruan YH, Hong KX, Liu SZ, He YX, Zhou F, Qin GM, et al. Community-based survey of HCV and HIV coinfection in injection drug abusers in Sichuan Province of China. World Journal of Gastroenterology. 2004;10:1589–1593
  33. Shaffer HJ, Eber GB. Temporal progression of cocaine dependence symptoms in the US National Comorbidity Survey. Addiction. 2002;97(5):543–554
  34. Stimson GV. British drug policies in the 1980s: A preliminary analysis and suggestions for research. British Journal of Addiction. 1987;82(5):477–488
  35. Stimson GV. ‘Blair declares war’: The unhealthy state of British drug policy. International Journal of Drug Policy. 2000;11(4):259–264
  36. Sullivan SG, Wu Z. Rapid scale up of harm reduction in China. International Journal of Drug Policy. 2007;18(2):118–128
  37. Tang YL, Zhao D, Zhao C, Cubells JF. Opiate addiction in China: Current situation and treatments. Addiction. 2006;101:657–665
  38. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime . A century of international drug control. 2008;
  39. Voth EA. The war on drugs: Time to relocate the battlefield?. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1995;273(6):459–460
  40. Voth EA. The war on drugs. Legalisation would be likely to result in increased use. British Medical Journal. 1996;312(7031):636
  41. Wagner FA, Anthony JC. From first drug use to drug dependence; developmental periods of risk for dependence upon marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2002;26(4):479–488
  42. Wang S. Analysis of veneral disease and HIV/AIDS in drug uses. Chinese Journal of Drug Dependence. 2001;10:218–219
  43. Wu, Z. (2008). Summary of the HIV/AIDS Prevention in 2007 and work plan for 2008. Presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Provincial AIDS Directors.
  44. Xiao Y, Kristensen S, Sun J, Lu L, Vermund SH. Expansion of HIV/AIDS in China: Lessons from Yunnan Province. Social Science & Medicine. 2007;64:665–675
  45. Zhang Z-B, Xu H-F, Zhao Y-T, Gao K, Li Z-R, Lin A-H. Effect evaluating of peer education on AIDS knowledge among withdrawal members after compulsory detoxification. Chinese Journal of Health Education. 2008;24(8.):578–580
  46. Zhou W, Yang G. Drug free in China: Challenge and strategy. Chinese Journal of Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment. 2004;10(1):1–2
  47. Zhou Y. Anti drug crusades in 20th century China: Nationalism, history, and state building. Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc.; 1999;

PII: S0955-3959(09)00128-5

doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2009.10.002

International Journal of Drug Policy
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 149-154 , May 2010

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution