Lan Ying recently criticized Democratic Progressive Party Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang's article about drug prevention and control 12 years ago, which attracted public attention. The Taipei City Health Bureau issued a press release on the 4th, emphasizing that obtaining needles to inject drugs is illegal and will still be investigated and dealt with in accordance with the law. This statement was criticized by medical professionals, who believed that this move was like destroying the trust relationship with drug addicts. Wang Wanyu, chairman of the Times Power Party, criticized: "Such malice is actually more poisonous than the drugs that make these people fall into drug addiction, isn't it?"
Wang Wanyu said that the North City Health Bureau has recently jumped into this drug melee, and the people it uses to sacrifice are a group of people who are already addicted to drugs, are most afraid of being seen, and most need someone to catch them. Wang Wanyu mentioned that there are indeed drug addicts who know where to get clean needles, but they dare not go there because they are afraid of the police. This is the most feared thing in harm reduction work. A person is finally willing to approach the service, but is scared back in the end, and then disappears, and has been lost ever since.
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Wang Wanyu quoted a press release from the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau, which wrote: "If drug addicts who participate in the clean needle program use the needles they receive to inject drugs or other illegal acts, they will still be investigated and dealt with in accordance with the law and will not receive any immunity from criminal law." Wang Wanyuqiang Everyone knows that drug use has legal responsibilities. The real question is, why does the Health Bureau, which is responsible for harm reduction, treatment, and disease prevention, emphasize "investigating and handling according to law" to those who receive services at this time of political attack and defense?
Wang Wanyu mentioned that Beijing Municipal Health Director Huang Jianhua only stated in a health bureau press release on July 2 that female drug addicts often hesitate to seek help because they are worried about being ostracized by society. The Health Bureau clearly knows that it is difficult for drug addicts to just come in and ask for help, but now they have added a barrier to prevent them from approaching.
Wang Wanyu listed the data and said that many drug addicts are unwilling to use clean needle services. The biggest concern is police ambush and surveillance. In the past 20 years since the harm reduction policy was promoted, the proportion of injection drug addicts among newly reported HIV-infected people in the country has dropped from more than 70% in 2005 to 1.7% in 2025. The premise of these results is actually very simple, that is, people must dare to come.
Wang Wanyu believes that this is the most unacceptable thing for him. Just a quick statement of "investigate and handle according to law" may make a person who was originally willing to come in afraid to come back next time. The health bureau has its own professionalism and responsibility, and cannot use the campaign slogan to operate on people who are receiving harm reduction services to prove that they are "anti-drug".
Wang Wanyu emphasized that the manufacturing, selling, and transporting of drugs should be investigated as necessary; those who are already addicted should find ways to get them into treatment and get off drugs. This line has always been clear. Wang Wanyu also said bluntly in the end: "The last thing that politics should do is to hurt a group of people who are already miserable just for the sake of an attack and defense in front of them. Such malice is actually more poisonous than the poison that makes these people addicted to drugs, isn't it?"
