ASED’s statistics showed 45 percent of the centers still lacked proper facilities.
The department said in the first six months of this year, only two thirds of the authorities that controlled rehabilitation centers had provided money to their facilities.
The report stated that at many centers, the focus was on improving infrastructure rather than rehabilitating clients.
It also said drug users needed more places to get community support without entering long term programs.
Many provinces including Dien Bien, Lai Chau, Hoa Binh and Thai Nguyen had cut their centers’ budgets, slowing upgrade plans, ASED said.
An ASED official said addicts’ paperwork needed faster processing and the rehabilitation programs needed review.
He said the situation if not fixed might have a negative fallout on the community including robbery and drug smuggling.
Wider agency cooperation was also needed to support addicts when they graduated from rehabilitation programs, he said.
There are more than 100 such treatment centers nationwide; ten are private.
According to reports from cities and provinces, the centers provided treatment to 27,740 drug addicts in the first six months of this year.
The government had a target of curing 80 percent of drug addicts by 2010.
Reported by Manh Duong |
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