| Summary: | 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 社會科學院澳門境外碩士在職專班 === 105 === There are a number of issues widely discussed in Macao, such as cross-border drug trafficking, campus drug trafficking, drug abuse in young people, hidden signs of drug abuse, and so on. Currently, the policy of Macao’s drugs treatment and rehabilitation consists of probation detoxification mechanism, which includes three levels of the drug treatment program - urine test, outpatient treatment and hostel-type treatment. It helps those people who are sentenced to less than three years’ imprisonment by the court due to the drug-related crimes, receive the drug treatment plan for one to five years or more. The trend of dealing with drug-related crimes in Macao has been changed to institutional treatment from community-based treatment in recent years. According to the probation drug treatment cases survey announced by the Department of Social Reintegration in 2015, the recidivism rate of the drugs crime offenders, who committed drug-related crimes and participated in the community based treatment in 2009 to 2013 is 10.1%. Therefore, it reflects that the community-based treatment is effectively dealing with drug addictive behaviors offended by those crimes who commit drug-related crime. Based on the recidivism rate of the cases who committed drug crimes, it reveals effectively reduced by the community-based treatment. This study is designed to assess the policy of probation detoxification as well as the drug treatment and rehabilitation measures in Macao. Moreover, it helps to investigate the association between different methods of community-based treatments and the effect of the drug treatment. Besides, the researcher also based upon findings and discuessions provides suggestions for the accomplishment and optimization for the policy of probation detoxification in Macao.
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