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Dubai Police's drug rehabilitation policy is showing results

The Dubai Police Rehabilitation and Training Centre has succeeded in curing 63 per cent of the people who had landed in its custody. The follow-up programme after the release of these people showed that just 37 resumed drug addiction, noted Saeed Al Helli, head of the centre's Following Care Section.

He said that the rehabilitation policy focused on changing the behavioural patterns of each of the addicts and succeeded in identifying capabilities to enable changing his viewpoints on different life aspects.

"We have concentrated on the psychological and behavioural treatment to help the cure from different psychological and social disorders that resulted in addiction. This was in collaboration with the family of the addict," he said.

Health and body fitness was another aspect that the Centre has focused on to help upgrade the physical status of the addict and to enable detoxification, he noted.

Also, involving the addict in different scientific theoretical and practical programmes prompted many to pursue their education and to obtain a certificate that helped many of them to get jobs after being released.

Through the "My Future is With You" programme the Centre coordinated with different government and private institutions to find jobs to the graduates of the Centre who showed a genuine tendency to get rid of the addiction and to resume a normal and successful life.

The Following Care Section has adopted the "World Around You" programme through which its staff kept in touch with these graduates and succeed in fostering family relationships between him and his family members to ensure that he did not turn back to addiction, he observed.

The section also managed to prompt the graduates to continue practising sports activities and to spend their free time in useful and fruitful activities.

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