Yan Chunzuo published an article to restore the process of promoting methadone therapy and thanked the former helpers

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan and Democratic Progressive Party Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang have recently been fiercely attacking each other over drug control policies. Former Tainan County Mayor Yan Chunzuo, who first advocated methadone replacement therapy in 2005, posted a post on Facebook to thank those who helped promote the policy.

Yan Chunzuo is a physician himself. In 2004, shortly after he took office as deputy county magistrate of Tainan County, his mentor and former director of health, Tu Xingzhe, reminded him that the AIDS infection rate in Tainan County from January to September was 300% of the previous year. Research found that heroin users at that time shared needles. , leading to a significant increase in AIDS infections. In order to prevent and treat AIDS and drug abuse, we began to advocate the promotion of methadone replacement therapy. At the beginning of the next year, we received the support of the then Executive Yuan Secretary-General Li Yingyuan and began to promote the trial. Due to the remarkable performance, the Ministry of Health and Welfare expanded the promotion throughout Taiwan.

Yan Chunzuo has been promoting methadone alternative therapy and clean needles for many years, and has made contributions to the prevention and treatment of AIDS. He has received the "US Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award", the "Kentucky Medal of Honor", the "Schweitzer Lifetime Medical Achievement Award", the 27th "Medical Contribution Award", etc. President Lai Ching-tak, who was then the Chief Executive Officer, once praised Yan Chunzuo for his admirable achievements in public health. He used methadol to replace heroin therapy, and also provided syringes to drug addicts, which significantly reduced the spread of AIDS transmitted by syringes.

In response to the recent political attacks and defenses, Yan Chunzuo restored the promotion situation at that time with a link to a magazine article from that year and his book "The New Opium War - Searching for Modern Du Chongming" on Facebook, and thanked former Executive President Su Tseng-chang, Executive Yuan Secretary-General Li Yingyuan, Director of Health (the predecessor of the Ministry of Health and Welfare) Hou Shengmao, former Tainan County Mayor Su Huanzhi, Prosecutor General Zhu Chaoliang, current Minister of Justice Zheng Mingqian, Prosecutor Zeng Zhaokai, and many grassroots personnel who assisted in the promotion at that time.

Yan Chunzuo said that he would not and did not want to comment on the election. He just wanted to say that in troubled times, we need to have different thinking patterns and patterns. Come on everyone, come on Taiwan.