Dagupan’s community-based rehab program starts
FOR LOW-LEVEL DRUG DEPENDENTS
THE six-month community-based drug rehabilitation program of Dagupan, will finally kick off next week in Barangay Lucao for some of the 76 self-confessed drug dependents in the village.
This was firmed up during the meeting of the City Anti-Drug Abuse Council (CADAC) on Wednesday at the City Museum presided over by Mayor Belen Fernandez and attended by City Police Chief Franklin Ortiz and Interior and Local Government City Director Rhoderick Dawis.
From Lucao, as the pilot barangay, the program will be launched to 30 clustered barangays in the city until all the 1,200 drug users and pushers who surrendered shall have all been rehabilitated.
Liga ng mga Barangay president Lino Fernandez, barangay chairman of Lucao, said the six-month period program is in accordance with the guidelines set by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) central office.
Accordingly, only those found with low level drug addiction will be made to undergo the program through an assessment by competent doctors to determine their level of drug affectation.
Those found in severe and moderate drug affectation will be recommended to undergo drug rehabilitation treatment at the Treatment and Rehabilitation Center (TRC) of the Department of Health (DOH) in Barangay Bonuan Binloc in the city.
Fernandez said under the six-month program, participants will be made to attend the thrice a week sessions.
However, since some of the enrolled participant are working as the only bread winners in their respective families, the families of the drug dependents will be involved in this program.
Involved in the program are members of the religious sector who were in the technical working group and will lecture on values formation.
The program includes lectures, physical activities and clinical counseling involving family members.
Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo, who attended the CADAC meeting as chairman of the peace and order committee of the city council, hailed the program because those who complete the program will be eventually removed from the list of drug personalities in the hands of the police.
The program is one of the components of Masa Masid, a program of DILG nationwide. (Leonardo Micua)
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