Editor's note:

Last Sunday, June 26, marked the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Regional authorities carried out various programs to demonstrate their resolution to check rampant drug trafficking and drug abuse. According to official data there were about 1.34 million drug abusers registered in China in 2009. In recent years, drug trafficking in the country has involved special groups and become more violent and covert, posing a greater challenge to anti-drug trafficking efforts.

 

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Authorities trial drug traffickers in the open in Taizhou, East China's Jiangsu province, June 22, 2011. [Photo/CFP]	Authorities trial drug traffickers in the open in Taizhou, East China's Jiangsu province, June 22, 2011. [Photo/CFP]

A boy swears an oath to keep away from drug abuse or trafficking in Jiujiang, East China's Jiangxi province, June 26, 2011. [Photo/CFP]

A woman under mandatory drug withdrawal treatment covers her face in a rehabilitation center in Jiujiang, East China's Jiangxi province, June 26, 2011. [Photo/CFP]

An armed policeman stands in front of pots where drugs were set on fire at a rehabilitation center in Kunming, South China'sYunnan province, June 26, 2011. [Photo/CFP]

Authorities trial drug traffickers in the open in Foshan, South China's Guangdong province, June 25, 2011. [Photo/CFP]

A woman undergoing treatment puts her hand on a glass partition as her baby daughter visits her in a rehabilitation center in Enshi, central China's Hubei province, July 1, 2010. [Photo/CFP]

People visit the sniffer dog training base of Beijing Customs inBeijing, June 25, 2011. [Photo/CFP]

 

 

A man looks through the door from his room in a drug rehabilitation center in Enshi, central China's Hubei province, July 1, 2010. [Photo/CFP]  A statue of Lin Zexu is seen at an anti-drug abuse and trafficking exhibition in Xiamen, Fujian province,  on July 14, 2005. Lin, an official in the Qing Dynasty, is regarded as an anti-opium-trade hero. [Photo/CFP] Bad friends Bad friends have become the main reason juveniles develop drug addiction in Beijing, Legal Evening newspaper reported. Full     World     A photo depicting a young baby dressed in camouflage and sitting in front of dozen of shotguns, found in a drug raid, is displayed in the Drug Museum in Mexico City, Mexico, Nov 13, 2008. [Photo/CFP]   A man works in a poppy field in Panshar, Badakhshan district, Afghanistan. [Photo/CFP]      A boy walks his donkey past a poppy field in Panshar, Badakhshan district, Afghanistan. [Photo/CFP]   Regulation China issued the new regulation on drug rehabilitation on Sunday, the 24th International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The regulation will work as a supplement to the country's anti-drug law, which was implemented in 2008. For the first time it provides comprehensive provisions on drug rehabilitation work across the country. Full