Services for drug abusers aim at helping drug abusers to abstain from their drug-taking habits and re-integrate into the community through community-based and residential services. Preventive programmes to educate young people and the public on harmful effects of drug abuse are also provided.

The service provision as at 31 March 2015 is as follows:

• 13 Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Centres
• 11 Counselling Centres for Psychotropic Substance Abusers
• 2 Centres for Drug Counselling

The Drug Dependent Persons Treatment and Rehabilitation Centres (Licensing) Ordinance, Cap. 566, aims at ensuring that drug dependent persons will receive services in a properly managed and physically secure environment. Under this Ordinance, all treatment centres are regulated by licences or certificates of exemption (the latter is only applicable to treatment centres which existed before the commencement of the Ordinance, i.e. 1 April 2002). In 2014-15, SWD issued or renewed licences/certificates of exemption to 39 government-subvented or self-financing and non-profit-making treatment centres according to the aforesaid Ordinance with the distribution as shown in Chart 19 below.

Counselling Centre for Psychotropic Substance Abusers (CCPSA) is community-based drug treatment and rehabilitation service, aiming at providing counselling and assistance to habitual/occasional/potential psychotropic substance abusers and to young people at risk with a view to assisting them to abstain from psychotropic substance abuse and develop healthy lifestyle. To make the service more accessible to Tung Chung residents, a sub-base of CCPSA in Tung Chung commenced operation in January 2015. Besides, another CCPSA was reprovisioned to a new premises in Tseung Kwan O in March 2015 so as to improve service environment and facilities.