In the above case, Dr Chong who recklessly dispensed psychotropic drugs to his teenage patients might breach the Code of Professional Conduct (Jan 2016) issued by the Medical Council of Hong Kong. According to the Code, doctors may prescribe medicine to a patient only after proper consultation and only if drug treatment is appropriate. The Code also provides that a doctor should not prescribe or supply drugs of addiction or dependence otherwise than in the course of bona fide and proper treatment, or he/she might be regarded as unlawful to give prescriptions prescribing dangerous drugs.