Passage: "Drugs are not only a threat to public security, but also to society as a whole," Tao said, pointing out that between 60 and 70 percent of HIV carriers in China had contracted the virus from sharing needles. Meanwhile, a report carried by the Xinhua news agency on Thursday demonstrated the pandemic nature of China's drug problem, which only five years ago was almost exclusively restricted to the southwestern province of Yunnan, bordering the heroin-producing Golden Triangle region.
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