'Hope and Life' Centers to Be Established in Yazd for Addiction Treatment and Employment

Yazd – The Yazd governor announced plans to establish 'Hope and Life' centers aimed at treating, educating, employing and reintegrating people with addiction into society.

Yazd- Governor of Yazd announced plans to establish "Hope and Life" centers with the aim of treatment, education, employment and return of addicts to the society.

According to the report of Ambassador Arjan, citing the public relations of Yazd Governorate, Mohammad Reza Babaei, in the fourth meeting of the coordination council of the province against narcotic drugs, pointed out the need to strengthen addiction prevention and treatment programs and stated: applicable cultural and educational plans in education and Yazd University of Medical Sciences were reviewed to deal with addiction.

Emphasizing the need to increase the capacity of Article 16 centers, he added: Changing the name of these centers to "Hope and Life" is also on the agenda so that the process of detoxification, treatment, rehabilitation, education and employment of addicts, especially people with severe addiction, can be followed with the aim of their return to society.

Referring to the role of social and cultural institutions in preventing addiction, the governor of Yazd stated: the welfare capacity, the intellectual development center for children and adolescents, the General Directorate of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, and municipalities should be used to deal with drugs.

Referring to the tendency of some young people to use new drugs and their false attractions, Babaei said: the consequences of addiction are not limited to the individual, and the family and those around the addicted person also face many harms and problems.

He also emphasized the necessity of monitoring and managing the routes used by drug traffickers and asked the governors of the cities to plan to block the secondary routes used by the traffickers.

In the end, Yazd Governor emphasized the need to follow up the approvals of the Anti-Narcotics Coordinating Council and noted: All the social and cultural institutions of the province must plan to deal with addiction, take the necessary measures and submit their performance reports.