Shen Boyang was criticized for his drug policy controversy, and netizens discovered that Li Sichuan promoted methadone dosing points when he was the deputy mayor of Kaohsiung.

The then mayor of Kaohsiung City, Han Kuo-yu, and others attended a press conference to expand the satellite delivery of methadone replacement therapy. (Extracted from the Facebook page of the Kaohsiung City Government’s Drug Control Bureau)

Shen Boyang, the Taipei mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, criticized Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan and New Taipei City mayoral candidate Li Sichuan for not discussing municipal affairs, but using his article introducing drug prevention and control policies more than ten years ago to "maliciously create panic", including methadone substitution therapy. Some netizens dug up that the Kaohsiung City Government's Drug Control Bureau announced in 2020 the methadol substitution therapy satellite administration point. The person who served as the deputy mayor of Kaohsiung City at that time was Li Sichuan, the current candidate for mayor of New Taipei City.

Some netizens dug up an official post from the Drug Control Bureau of the Kaohsiung City Government on March 25, 2020. At that time, Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu, Director of Drug Control Ruan Qingyang, and Health Director Lin Liren jointly attended the "Kaohsiung City Methador Alternative Treatment Satellite Dosing Point Press Conference" and announced the addition of satellite dosing points in Ziguan, Shanlin and Liugui Districts within the jurisdiction.

The post emphasized that the purpose of the policy is to "strengthen the medical treatment of drug addiction cases in rural areas and increase the accessibility and convenience of medical treatment." The person who served as the deputy mayor of Kaohsiung City at that time was Li Sichuan, the current candidate for mayor of New Taipei City. Netizens retweeted and left messages questioning, "Were you the deputy mayor at that time?" and sarcastically criticized related criticisms.

The post also shows that methadol replacement therapy has been implemented at the county and city government levels for many years. It is part of the harm reduction policy of cooperation between the central and local governments and is not the original creation of a specific political party. By setting up drug administration points in remote areas, drug addicts can receive stable treatment within the medical system and avoid interruptions.

As the pictures spread on the Threads platform, many netizens left messages saying that if they had participated in and promoted the US-Saudi Extension, they now equate this policy with the encouragement of drugs, which is inconsistent in logic. Relevant controversies have also brought professional correctional systems such as Methadone to the attention of society again.