Difficult to put drug addicts into voluntary rehabilitation

Reporting to the monitoring delegation of the Provincial People's Council, Mr. Ho Sy Dung - Director of the Vinh City Voluntary Drug Rehabilitation Facility affirmed that the implementation of the voluntary drug rehabilitation target has not met the assigned target because drug addicts do not voluntarily enter drug rehabilitation. Photo: Mai Hoa

Vinh City Voluntary Drug Rehabilitation Center is a place to receive, rehabilitate and manage 200 - 250 students in Vinh City, Cua Lo Town and Hung Nguyen District in 2 forms: compulsory drug rehabilitation and voluntary drug rehabilitation.

In addition to treatment activities, detoxification, and health care for drug addicts, the facility also focuses on education and vocational training for students.

In addition, the facility organizes many labor and production activities that are both therapeutic and associated with cultural and sports activities, creating a healthy living environment for students.

Students decorate the campus. Photo: Mai Hoa

Along with managing and organizing drug rehabilitation for addicts, the facility also receives and manages subjects while waiting for their records to be completed, and considers decisions on applying measures to send them to reformatory facilities or compulsory drug rehabilitation facilities.

During the meeting, the monitoring team noted a number of difficulties, shortcomings and recommendations from the facility. That is, although the scale of receiving and managing 200-250 students, the facility currently only has a total of 30 employees, of which 18 are on the payroll and 12 are on indefinite-term labor contracts.

Mr. Ho Sy Dung - Director of Vinh City's voluntary drug rehabilitation facility said that it is difficult to bring drug addicts into the facility voluntarily. Photo: Mai Hoa

In particular, at the facility, in addition to performing the tasks of detoxification, detoxification, and health care for addicts, there are people who have to treat social diseases, localized and peripheral brain damage caused by methamphetamine use; meanwhile, there are only 3 medical staff, making it very difficult to schedule rotational leave according to the Labor Law.

The monitoring team studies the effectiveness of withdrawal treatment at the facility. Photo: Mai Hoa

In addition, the monitoring team also noted that the success rate of drug addiction treatment is too low. Through the management of drug addicts entering and leaving the facility, up to 80% of drug addicts return to the facility for the second or third time. There are also some shortcomings in the physical facilities, especially the wastewater treatment system at the facility.

From the practice of the grassroots, the Legal Committee of the Provincial People's Council will synthesize to report to the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council to include in the agenda of the next Provincial People's Council meeting for consideration and finding solutions.

Students participate in increasing vegetable production, ensuring food supply for the facility. Photo: Mai Hoa