The Government will propose that the National Assembly agree to setting up compulsory drug detoxification centers on a pilot basis and delaying the enforcement of two articles of a relevant law as solutions to tackle drug detoxification problems.
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Following discussions with concerned agencies at the Monday meeting on measures to better handle drug addicts, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked competent agencies to draft the two above proposed solutions to submit to the NA for approval.
These solutions are aimed at improving the efficiency of drug detoxification and driving back drug addiction nationwide. Accordingly, compulsory drug detoxification centers should be set up so that concerned agencies can temporarily stop drug addicts’ rush on the spot, offer them preliminary detoxification, and provide them with initial psychological consultancy pending orders issued by courts to officially admit them to such centers.
Pursuant to the Law on the Handling of Administrative Violations, which took effect on January 1, 2014, drug addicts can be sent to a drug detoxification facility only when a court judgment is issued for this purpose and when an addict fails to stay sober after being monitored for three to six months by local authorities.
In practice such regulations are unfeasible, as most drug addicts are homeless so they cannot be put under any supervision, concerned agencies said.
Such regulations have made it hard to send addicts to rehab centers for compulsory detoxification, they said.
Speaking at a meeting of the NA on October 29, Minister of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai Chuyen said only 33 drug addicts were sent to such facilities in 10 provinces and cities nine months after the implementation of the law.
Meanwhile, the number of drug addicts seen in public places has risen significantly, worrying the public, she added.
According to a report released by the Ministry of Public Security at the meeting, the country now has 10 hot spots of drug addiction, with Hanoi, Son La and Ho Chi Minh City leading in the number of drug addicts.
In talking with Tuoi Tre on October 28 Huynh Thanh Lap, head of the Ho Chi Minh City delegation at the ongoing eighth session of the 13th NA, said the city is now home to numerous drug addicts from other provinces and cities.
“Drug addiction is spreading widely, creating unrest among the general public,” Lap said.
At yesterday’s meeting, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs proposed that the NA and Government issue a joint resolution on combating drug addiction, prostitution and HIV/AIDS to form legal ground for the preparation of a bill on the prevention and treatment of drug addiction and for the amendment of existing drug-related laws and regulations.
Proposed delay of regulations
Yesterday’s meeting also agreed to submit to the NA a proposal to delay the enforcement of two articles of the Law on Handling of Administrative Violations, with a view to improve the efficiency of drug detoxification while waiting for amendments to the law, as well as other relevant laws, in the near future.
One of the articles is Article 103, which provides regulations on “creating dossiers of request for application of the measure of consignment to a compulsory detoxification establishment.”
The other article is Article 131, which governs the “consignment of persons requested to be subject to administrative handling measures to their families or organizations for management pending the completion of procedures for application of such measures.”
The postponement of this legislation will help remove difficulties concerned agencies are facing in handling drug addicts and driving back rising drug addiction, the meeting agreed.
In a report delivered to the NA on October 29, Minister of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai Chuyen said the number of drug addicts in Vietnam increases by 7,000 every year and the figure stood at over 200,000 as of September.
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