Chapter IV Measures for the Cure of Drug Addiction

Article 31 The State takes various measures to help drug users overcome drug addiction, and enlighten them and help them cure their addiction.

Drug addicts shall undergo treatment of drug addiction.

The measures for verifying drug addiction shall be formulated by the administrative department for health, the drug regulatory department and the public security department under the State Council.

Article 32 Public security organs may conduct the necessary test on persons suspected of using narcotic drugs, and the persons subjected to such test shall cooperate; a person who refuses to undergo the test may be subjected to compulsory test upon approval by the leading person of a public security organ under the people’s government at or above the county level or of the office dispatched by the public security organ.

Public security organs shall have the drug users registered.

Article 33 The public security organ may order a drug addict to receive treatment of drug addiction in the community, and shall, at the same time, notify the neighborhood office in the urban area or the township or town people’s government of the place where the residence of the drug addict is registered or he is actually residing. The period for treatment of drug addiction in the community shall be three years.

A person for treatment of drug addiction shall receive the same in the community where his residence is registered; if he has a permanent domicile at the place where he is actually residing other than at the place where his residence is registered, he may receive such treatment in the community at the place where he is actually residing.

Article 34 Neighborhood offices in urban areas and the township or town people’s governments shall be responsible for the work related to treatment of drug addiction in the communities. They may designate the relevant grass-roots organizations to sign agreements on treatment of drug addiction in the communities with the persons to receive such treatment there in light of the conditions of the said persons themselves and their families, and put into effect the measures for different individuals who receive such treatment in the communities. Public security organs and the judicial administration departments, the administrative departments for health, the departments of civil affairs, etc. shall provide guidance and assistance with respect to treatment of drug addiction in the communities.

Neighborhood offices in urban areas, the township and town people’s governments, and the administrative departments of labour under the people’s governments at the county level shall provide the necessary vocational training in skills, and employment guidance and aid to the persons receiving treatment of drug addiction who are jobless and are unable to find jobs.

Article 35 Persons receiving treatment of drug addiction in the community shall abide by laws and regulations, conscientiously fulfill the agreements on treatment of drug addiction in the community, and accept regular test as required by public security organs.

If a person receiving treatment of drug addiction in the community violates the agreement on such treatment, the workers participating in treatment of drug addiction in the community shall criticize and enlighten him; if such violation is serious, or the said person ingests or injects narcotic drugs again during the period of treatment of drug addiction in the community, the said workers shall report the matter to the public security organ in a timely manner.

Article 36 A drug user may by himself go to a medical institution that is qualified for medical treatment of drug addiction to receive treatment.

A medical institution to be set up for treatment of drug addiction or a medical institution to provide such treatment shall meet the prescribed requirements laid down by the administrative department for health under the State Council and shall be subject to approval by the administrative department for health under the people’s government of the province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government where it is located, and the matter shall be put on file by the public security organ at the same level. Medical treatment of drug addiction shall be provided in conformity with the standards for such treatment as are formulated by the administrative department for health under the State Council, and shall be subject to supervision and inspection by an administrative department for health.

Treatment of drug addiction shall not be provided for the purpose of making profits. Medicines, medical apparatus and instruments and methods used for treatment of drug addiction shall not be advertised. Where fees are charged for such treatment, they shall be collected in accordance with the rates fixed by the department in charge of pricing under the people’s government of the province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government in conjunction with the administrative department for health under the same.