Propaganda Programs Help to Foster Drug Prevention and Control

•     A variety of ways of propaganda:

    Defining that drug prevention is major; the committee of provincial Women Association Vietnamese Fatherland Front and unions have boosted the propaganda programs and education of drug control. By means of various activities such as: meetings, parades, special subject talks, contests on knowledge of drug prevention and control, arts performances, movies, banners, posters, etc., they have drawn a great number of participants.

    Separately in the operation, across the provinces, 69 meetings and parades  were held on occasion of the day of drug prevention and control in key lines and regions, and far-flung areas; there were 1,378 series of propaganda programs with the participation of 402,281 turns of members of the Youth Union, teenagers and students and locals; 139 arts performances and movies for 52,502 turns of viewers; propaganda via broadcasting systems reached 1,226 hours; issuing 1,563 questionnaire booklets on drug prevention and control, 50 cassette tapes and 68 movies disks to the communes, wards, branches of Youth Union, and schools as a propaganda materials; about 1,500 supportive banners, slogans, posters were design for propaganda purposes.

•     The propaganda programs mainly target to grass-root levels:

    On June 26, under assignment of the provincial steering committee, the provincial Youth Union and Cam My district Public Security, and Cam My people’s committee jointly organized meeting and camp festival entitled “Dong Nai Youth stand together to prevent and control drugs”. The festival attracted 500 participants including members of the Youth Union, typical students, drawback teenagers and post-addicts from 27 units of distticts, town and city directly under the center of education, labor and society. In addition to exchange, arts, games and recreation activities, the provincial launched a signature collection program for the declaration entitled “Dong Nai Youths Say “NO” with Drug abuse”.

    In Bien Hoa city, 34 turns of roving cars, meetings and parades were held; other 99 propaganda programs on dug countering and prevention for 101,411 turns of participants and 21 arts performance nights of relevant topic.

    In Vinh Cuu district, 408 policy propaganda programs on drug prevention were held for 45,460 cadres and workers, students and people; 11 nights of arts performances on drug-related control topic for 2,500 viewers; contests combining drawing and talks on drug control  and HIV/AIDS with total participations of 9.000 people. 

    The provincial Women Union organized 22 training courses on drug prevention and control for 1,435 female cadres, propagated 219 for 82,145 turns of the Union members, women, issued 1,100 questionnaire leaflets on law on drug prevention and control to Union cells.

The provincial Labor Union held 60 turns of propaganda in combination with the “4 downs” programs attracting 61,730 cadres and workers.

• Outcomes of the war against drug criminal and drug addict detoxification:

In line with boosting propaganda campaigns on drug prevention and social prevention, the provincial Public Security plans to direct local authorities to detect real situations, and then synchronically suggest professional measures to efficiently cope with drug-related criminal in key lines and areas. During the peak operation, it detected, revealed 83 cases and held 198 subjects involved in drug sale, storage and use. 61 cases comprising 79 subjects were set up files and ready to be prosecuted; other 22 cases involved in 119 defendants were administratively punished.

On the basis of the survey data, addicts were offered appreciate way to detoxify. As a result, 84 subjects were taken to concentrated detoxification; 87 subjects were detoxified at home; 34 subjects were mobilized to attend detoxification centers; 43 subjects were converted and 517 subjects were deterred and educated.