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MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — The Mandaue Metropolis Authorities has reported a drop in variety of personnel who examined constructive for unlawful drug use this 12 months.
In line with the Mandaue Metropolis Substance Abuse and Psychological Well being Providers Workplace (SAMHSO), solely 13 personnel examined constructive for drug use in 2024 as in comparison with the 15 instances that have been reported in 2023.
SAMHSO had been conducting random drug testing in 47 authorities places of work, together with the 27 barangays right here, within the final two years.
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Atty. Ebenezer Daryl Manzano, the SAMHSO head, attributed the decline in substance abuse instances to the town authorities’s enhanced drug-free office coverage, that promotes therapy and rehabilitation of the drug customers. On the similar time, this system helps remove the stigma related to in search of assist for substance use dysfunction.
Manzano stated that the initiative can be a part of Mandaue Metropolis’s broad vary of human rights-based anti-drug packages. These embody voluntary rehabilitation, jail-based rehabilitation, an built-in community-based psychological well being and drug rehabilitation, and the not too long ago launched Balay Silangan reformation program.
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As a part of this system, Manzano stated that drug customers are requested to endure dependency analysis with Division of Well being (DOH)-accredited physicians to make it possible for they obtain the suitable intervention.
To this point, 12 of the 13 people who examined for drug use in 2024, selected to pursue therapy and rehabilitation for not less than six months.
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Rehabilitation
Manzano stated that after they full their rehabilitation, they are going to be given an opportunity to return to Metropolis Corridor.
“Atoa naman unhappy gi-push nga irregardless og constructive mo, dili mo taktakon sa metropolis authorities so long as mo endure sa program. Pero if mo refuse sila sa program, mao nay foundation nga i-let go na sila,” Manzano stated.
(We’re additionally pushing that irregardless in the event that they check constructive, they won’t be terminated from service for so long as they endure this system. But when they refuse, that might be our foundation to let go of them.)
“Ang amoa man gud considering ana ug based mostly unhappy sa amo knowledge, if amoang tangtangun diri kay manakod ra sila sa neighborhood stage. Dili man mi ganahan nga lage limpyo lage tan-awon ang metropolis authorities pero ang atoang neighborhood, ang barangay maoy magsuffer kay didto diay sila nagstay with out interventions,” Manzano added.
(We don’t wish to terminate those that check constructive for unlawful medication as a result of they’ll simply infect the neighborhood. We could have a clear metropolis authorities [if we terminate them from service] however it’s the neighborhood that suffers as a result of they are going to be staying there with out interventions.)
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