The first time was in 1993, when Premier Lien Chan declared a "War on Drugs," and launched a major effort to confiscate illegal narcotics. In that year the government uncovered 1114 kg of heroin and more than 3300 kg of amphetamines, a major increase over the previous year.
首先是一九九三年，行政院連院長下令「向毒品宣戰」，開始強力查緝毒品，總計一年內破獲了一千一百十四公斤的海洛因和三千三百多公斤的安非他命，比前一年大幅增加了二倍多。