Treatment and Rehabiliation

Hong Kong has long-adopted a multi-modality approach to drug treatment and rehabilitation to cater for the divergent needs of drug dependent persons from varying backgrounds.

The main types of our drug treatment and rehabilitation programmes include -

Photo
compulsory placement scheme operated by the Correctional Services Department; Photo
voluntary out-patient methadone treatment programme provided by the Department of Health;
voluntary residential drug treatment and rehabilitation programmes run by non-governmental organisations. There are 40 drug treatment and rehabilitation centres and halfway houses in the territory (20 of them are subvented by Department of Health or Social Welfare Department);
community-based counselling services, including 11 counselling centres for psychotropic substance abusers and two centres for drug counselling under subvention of Social Welfare Department;
substance abuse clinics operated by the Hospital Authority.

Following a series of consultation among the stakeholders, the Narcotics Division released in December 2010 the first edition of a tiered, multi-modality approach of treatment and rehabilitation services for drug abusers in Hong Kong as a reference for the service sectors, the service users and the public. This was a first attempt to conceptualise the broad array of services in the landscape in a more systematic manner. The tiered framework embodies a continuum of services from identification, treatment, rehabilitation to reintegration, and highlights the complementary roles of social welfare, healthcare, education, and aftercare services.


Services for Psychotropic Substances Abusers
Services for Heroin Abusers
Services for Sentenced Persons
Relevant Documents
List of Organisations Providing Treatment and Rehabilitation Services in Hong Kong
 
Top

Last revision date: 16 August 2011