LAOAG CITY\u2014\u00a0Illegal drug users in the province are now slowly finding their way back home as several government interventions are being undertaken to help them.<\/p>\n
In Badoc town for example, a community-based rehabilitation program just kicked in to reach out to all drug surrenderers.<\/p>\n
Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer Lilian Rin said Friday the PSWDO is leading the reintegration and transformation of recovering drug dependents.<\/p>\n
Under the community-based rehabilitation program, drug surrenderers shall complete 13 modules. During the course of the program, the participants are constantly reminded of making a clean living and doing away with drugs.<\/p>\n
Of the total 6, 277 individuals who surrendered to the Philippine National Police (PNP) as of September 30, 2017, the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) recorded a total of 4,773 persons who already completed their CBRP training.<\/p>\n
In support of the program, the Diocese of Laoag and other religious groups here provide psycho spiritual guidance to former drug dependents.<\/p>\n
Of the 21 towns and two cities of Ilocos Norte, the PNP reported at least 430 out of the 513 drug affected barangays are already cleared.<\/p>\n
A drug affected barangay means there is an identified drug user or pusher.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LAOAG CITY\u2014\u00a0Illegal drug users in the province are now slowly finding their way back home as several government interventions are …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[27798,27797],"class_list":["post-123847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-healing-process","tag-illegal-drug-users","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}