Nghe An launches Action Month against drugs

Accordingly, the Provincial People's Committee requested: to enhance the role, responsibility, and effectiveness of coordination between sectors from the province to the grassroots; to mobilize the combined strength of the entire political system and the entire population to participate in drug prevention and control, towards a drug-free community.

Strengthen propaganda work, create a drug prevention communication campaign across the province; strengthen the work of grasping the situation, preventing, fighting and suppressing drug crimes; improve the quality and effectiveness of drug rehabilitation work; manage drug addicts, illegal drug users and post-rehabilitation management, contributing to reducing supply, reducing demand and reducing the harmful effects of drugs.

The implementation of the drug prevention action month must be carried out synchronously, consistently, consistently and sustainably, ensuring effectiveness, practicality and economy; focusing on key and complicated drug-related areas; improving the effectiveness of coordination between forces inside and outside the police sector.

Authorities and people marched to promote drug prevention and control in Nam Can commune, Ky Son district. Photo courtesy: Lu Phu

To implement the above request, the Provincial People's Committee proposes:

* Functional sectors increase diversification of propaganda activities(mobile propaganda, printing of billboards, posters, leaflets, banners and slogans, concentrated propaganda, individual mobilization) to each neighborhood, household and directly in the residential community, especially in key areas and locations, with a high concentration of workers in industrial parks, large projects, high-risk groups, teenagers, students.

Strengthening the application of 4.0 technology, social networking systems (Zalo, Facebook), electronic information pages, mobile platforms... in propaganda work.

People's Committees of districts, cities and towns shall, based on the requirements of PCMT work in the area, organize rallies, parades and launching ceremonies to implement the PCMT Action Month appropriately, creating a vibrant PCMT atmosphere in the area.

*Strongly launch the mass movement to protect national security associated with building, consolidating and replicating advanced models and examples in drug prevention and control in 100% of communes, wards and towns.

In particular, organize household representatives in hamlets, villages, residential areas to sign a commitment not to participate in crime, drug abuse and to build a drug-free border commune; organize people in areas at risk of growing plants containing narcotics to sign a commitment not to grow plants containing narcotics. Strengthen the organization of "Police listen to people's opinions" forums.((can be organized separately or in combination) to promptly propagate and disseminate to people about policies, laws, methods and tricks of drug crime activities; mobilize people to actively participate in preventing and denouncing drug crimes and evils; grasp the security and order situation, opinions, thoughts and aspirations of the people... associated with praising and setting examples for individuals and typical advanced models who have made many contributions to drug prevention and control work in the area.(The form and scale of the organization can be flexible depending on the actual conditions of the locality.

Authorities unsealed the seized drugs. Photo: Duc Vu

- Effectively implement the work of meeting and enlisting prestigious people in clans, villages, religious dignitaries, village elders, village chiefs, and typical people in the commune... to form a network of propagandists in the community, mobilizing the participation and support of prestigious people in "cleaning up" drugs in the area.

- Continue to build and maintain advanced models and examples in drug addiction treatment, post-treatment management and effective community reintegration. At the same time, continue to consolidate and maintain effective models in drug propaganda, prevention and control, such as: the model of "villages, hamlets, and villages without drugs", the model of "drug prevention and control propaganda clubs"...

- The District People's Committee continues to direct the construction and effective replication of the model of "drug-free communes, wards and towns" according to the criteria of the Project to build "Drug-free communes" of the Provincial Police.

Tri Le Commune Police (Que Phong) coordinated with Tri Le Border Guard to promote the project "Border commune clean of drugs". Photo: Duc Vu

* The Provincial People's Committee also requests the Police, Border Guard and Customs forces to:

- Actively grasp, analyze, and forecast the situation, promptly resolve emerging issues of crime and drug abuse in the area; organize a peak period of attack and suppression of drug-related crimes throughout the province.(from June 1, 2023 to June 30, 2023), focusing on fighting fiercely, eliminating large drug trafficking and transport lines and gangs between provinces and across countries; arresting drug trafficking lines and ringleaders. Developing plans to combat drug crimes on aviation, postal, express delivery, and technology delivery routes. In particular, continuing to prioritize forces and measures to fight strongly and fiercely against drug crimes on the Vietnam - Laos border, determined to maintain the "green zone", firmly block, not allowing the complicated drug crime situation to recur in the border area.

Crime scene and evidence of a case. Photo: Hong Ngoc

- Strengthen the implementation of solutions to improve the effectiveness of the work of eliminating drug use hotspots, effectively preventing and strictly handling illegal drug use, especially the situation of taking advantage of motels, hotels, bars, karaoke... to organize illegal drug use.

- Speed ​​up the investigation, prosecution and trial of drug cases to ensure strictness and compliance with the law, select key cases to bring to mobile trials in areas with complex drug problems, serving propaganda and crime deterrence work.

- Strengthen international cooperation activities in border control; regularly exchange information and coordinate with functional forces of Xieng Khouang, Hua Phan, and Bolikhamxay provinces of the Lao People's Democratic Republic to effectively carry out border control work in border areas.

* Regarding the work of determining addiction status, drug rehabilitation, post-rehabilitation management and community reintegration, the Provincial People's Committee requests the relevant agencies to:

- Advise the Provincial People's Council to develop and promulgate a Resolution on regulations on a number of regimes and policies to support compulsory drug addiction treatment, voluntary drug addiction treatment, post-drug addiction treatment management and contribution responsibilities for voluntary drug addicts at drug addiction treatment facilities in Nghe An province.

- Continue to review, compile statistics, and accurately assess the situation of drug addicts and illegal drug users in the area, especially those showing signs of psychosis and "stoned" to strictly manage, especially in key and complicated areas with a large concentration of workers in industrial parks, export processing zones, large construction project areas... On that basis, proactively deploy the work of determining addiction status, preparing records to apply appropriate drug rehabilitation measures, especially compulsory drug rehabilitation for those without stable jobs, showing signs of crime and violating the law. Strive by the end of June 2023, the results of compulsorily completing drug rehabilitation records will reach at least 60% of the target assigned in Decision 4378/QD- dated December 30, 2022 of the People's Committee of Nghe An province on announcing the socio-economic plan targets for 2023.

Injection of detoxification drugs for synthetic drug addicts at Vinh City Labor and Social Affairs Center. Photo: PV

- Improve the effectiveness of drug addiction treatment, strictly manage the organization of treatment for addicts at treatment facilities, and prevent the illegal buying, selling, and use of "dual" drugs. Continue to direct the effective implementation of the Methadone substitution treatment program for opioid addiction.

- Continue to review and ensure that the facilities and human resources of the health care system are qualified to determine drug addiction status, especially commune health stations; invest in, upgrade and repair drug rehabilitation facilities in the area to effectively serve drug rehabilitation work in the province.

-Strictly control legal drug activities; prevent the loss of precursor chemicals, pharmaceuticals containing narcotics and psychotropic substances for misuse; proactively prevent, detect and strictly handle illegal drug production in the area, especially synthetic drugs. At the same time, pay attention to investment and economic development for people in remote and border areas, especially areas where narcotic plants were previously grown, so that they can stabilize their lives and not replant narcotic plants.