VGP – Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam, Chairman of the National Committee for AIDS, Drugs and Prostitution Prevention and Control on September 10 held a meeting with relevant ministries and agencies to discuss measures to overcome difficulties and obstacles in launching the Lawon Handling Administrative Violations in Treatment.
The Law took effect on January 1, stipulating that repeat drug offenders must have compulsory drug rehabilitation for one to two years if they relapse after completing community treatment upon the first offence.
Statistics from the national committee reveal that Viet Nam has about 142 treatment centers.
Participants at the meeting initiated to deal with a lot of issues including lack of regulations on the diagnosis of drug addicts, lack of procedural guidance from various agencies and ineffective implementation at the communal level.
The number of drug addicts using ecstasy has apparently increased, but relevant agencies are not clear on the numbers and are unsure about a treatment plan.
The Ministry of Health was working on co-coordinating the supply of methadone to needed localities and was certain the target could be met.
The Deputy PM asked the finance ministry to ensure that the state and local budgets could meet the demand for methadone treatment.
Currently, as many as 20,000 drug addicts have been treated with Methadone. The figure is expected to reach 80,000 ones by 2015.
By Thuy Dung
Đăng ký: VietNam News
