Drogenbekämpfung in China

The People's Republic of China dealt with addiction as a political problem, offering the new society hope, food, shelter, work, and land instead of opium. Addiction no longer had its appeal. Opium producing poppies were replaced by food crops. Large opium distributors were imprisoned. Addicts were “clean.” A mass campaign against addiction mobilized the entire nation. Before Liberation in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party had kept opium out of their areas. However, it took until 1953 to rid China completely of opium. Twenty million Chinese outside the People's Republic of China continue to have serious narcotic addiction problems.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00952997709002758 Lowinger 1977

In China, the Maoist revolution ended drug addiction QUICKLY. Mao's revolutionary armies defeated the oppressors' armies in 1949. THREE YEARS LATER, in 1952, there were no more addicts, no more pushers, no more opium poppies grown, and no more drugs smuggled in. In only three short years China went from 70 million drug addicts to none. (revcom)

http://www.revcom.us/a/china/opium.htm How the Maoist Revolution ...

http://www.sacu.org/opium.html How Red China got Rid of Opium (1977)