Prior to 1989 or so, the drug situation in Taiwan was not very complex. The most popular addictive drugs were chemically synthesized narcotics and hallucinogens. Very powerful drugs were rare. By the 1990s, however, things had changed.
台灣在民國七十八年以前，毒品問題較單純，最熱門的成癮藥物不過是便宜的速賜康、紅中、白板等化學合成的麻醉品和迷幻劑，真正的強力毒品還不常見。