Improve the effectiveness of drug addiction treatment

In May 2024, Lao Cai Province Voluntary Drug Rehabilitation Center was established on the basis of merging Methadone Treatment Center No. 1 and No. 2 (photo below). Every day, about 400 addicts come to the facility to take medication. Here, addicts are consulted and supported with treatment regimens suitable for each person's health and physical condition.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Thang, Director of Lao Cai Province Voluntary Drug Rehabilitation Center, said: “Rearrange and reorganize the work appropriately, and take turns working to better treat patients. For patients, this is a location with convenient access.”

At Lao Cai Province Drug Rehabilitation Center No. 1 - where 620 people are being treated for drug addiction; in 2023, the facility will invest 80 billion VND to build a rehabilitation treatment area with a scale of 300 beds, a visiting house, and an administration house. The 5-storey building is expected to be put into use by the end of this year, creating conditions to receive and treat an additional 700 drug addicts.

Drug Rehabilitation Center No. 1, Lao Cai Province.

Lao Cai Province's No. 1 Drug Rehabilitation Center is providing compulsory drug rehabilitation treatment for 620 people.

Mr. Nguyen Minh Thu, Director of Lao Cai Province Drug Rehabilitation Center No. 1 said: “In the period of 2025 - 2030, we will be invested more than 200 billion to complete all other items such as kitchen, dining room, multi-purpose house, and other conditions such as planting trees to ensure a friendly drug rehabilitation environment.”

To improve the effectiveness of drug addiction treatment, the provincial Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs directed facilities to focus on counseling and vocational training for students, helping addicts feel secure in their treatment to integrate into the community.

Mr. Nguyen Van Son, Deputy Director of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of the province said: "We focus on short-term, hands-on training courses and occupations mainly related to rural areas such as: electromechanics, rural mechanics, veterinary husbandry... During the vocational training period, people also create their own skills."

Units improve the effectiveness of drug addiction treatment, support addicts to quickly reintegrate into the community, and become useful citizens to society.

Lao Cai currently has 16 active drug treatment and rehabilitation facilities, including 2 compulsory rehabilitation facilities. The efforts to innovate the operations of these units have improved the effectiveness of drug rehabilitation work, helping addicts to quickly reintegrate into the community and become useful citizens to society.

Viet Hung - Thanh Thuan

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