Vietnam: Things to know about home-based drug rehabilitation and community-based drug rehabilitation

11:15, 09/09/2009

The Law on amendments to a number of articles of Law on Drug Prevention and Fight in 2008 (hereinafter referred to as Law No. 16/2008/QH12) was promulgated on June 03, 2008.

Specifically, according to Clause 5 Article 1 of the Law No. 16/2008/QH12 of Vietnam, which amends and supplements Article 27 of the Law on Drug Prevention and Fight 2000, home-based drug rehabilitation and community-based drug rehabilitation shall be implemented as follows:

1. Home-based drug rehabilitation and community-based drug rehabilitation shall apply to drug-dependent persons who voluntarily participate in rehabilitation programs, except for those voluntarily participating in rehabilitation programs in drug rehabilitation centers.

In case the drug-dependent person fails to voluntarily participate in rehabilitation programs, compulsory community-base drug rehabilitation shall apply as decided by the Chairperson of commune-level People's Committee.

2. The duration of home-based drug rehabilitation or community-based drug rehabilitation shall be from 6 to 12 months.

3. Commune-level Committees shall organize community-based drug rehabilitation and provide guidelines for and assistance in home-based drug rehabilitation.

4. The Government shall specify the organization of home-based drug rehabilitation, community-based drug rehabilitation and procedures for forcing community-based rehabilitation.

More details can be found in the Law No. 16/2008/QH12 of Vietnam, which takes effect from January 01, 2009 and provides amendments to a number of articles of the Law on Drug Prevention and Fight 2000.

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