Lingayen’s 334 drug users finished rehab
THE 334 self-confessed drug personalities in Lingayen town who surrendered last year have completed the community-based drug rehabilitation program.
P/Sr. Inspector Buenaventura Benavides III of the Intelligence Section of Lingayen Police Station, said the rehabilitation program started last January 18 after the turnover ceremony of the surrendered drug users and pushers from Lingayen Police Station to the town’s Municipal Anti-Drug Advisory Council (MADAC).
The community-based program was conducted by the Lingayen municipal government, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), MADAC, Barangay Anti Drug Abuse Council (BADAC), PNP Lingayen and Municipal Health Unit (MHU).
The program included drug tests and drug dependency examination conducted by the MHU and followed by a successive unannounced drug tests and lectures on illegal drugs. Moral enhancement program was held every Sunday by the religious sector for the moral transformation of the slightly affected drug users and pushers.
To help ensure that the drug personalities have reformed and rehabilitated
pulong-pulong (didalogue) was also held in every barangay about the ill effects of drugs, livelihood trainings that include cash for work and food for work program of the municipal government and did weekly community service, cleaning the beach area.
Two drug users considered medium risks are still undergoing rehabilitation as out patients at the Training and Rehabilitation Center in Bonuan Dagupan City.
Based on the MHU’s assessment, there were only four drug pushers that confessed and surrendered.
The Lingayen government allocated P1 million for the rehabilitation program for this year and another P1 million for the continuity of the program for 2018.
Meanwhile, the town is waiting its declaration as officially drug free by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).
The 32 barangays of the town have been recommended for validation as drug free by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office after the rehabilitation program was completed. (Nora Dominguez)
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