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BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
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Monday, April 10, 2017
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ILOILO City – Since last year, a total of 351 drug surrenderees finished their drug rehabilitation at the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6).
“We will not stop helping drug personalities willing to change for the better through our program,” said Superintendent Gilbert Gorero, spokesperson of the regional police.
After the launching of Oplan Double Barrel in July last year, PRO-6 initiated a community-based drug rehabilitation program.
Clients were mostly from six villages – Concepcion, Rizal Ibarra, Zamora, Duran, Sto. Rosario, and Dela Rama – surrounding Camp Delgado.
The 351 drug surrenderers who “graduated” were from the program’s five batches of clients.
The most recent graduation was held on April 7 at the PRO-6’s multipurpose hall; 52 surrenderers completed their four-week rehabilitation.
Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog and Senior Superintendent Remus Zacharias Canieso, city police director, attended the graduation.
“We are happy. The drug surrenderers were very willing to change for the better. They submitted themselves to treatment,” said Chief Superintendent Jose Gentiles, regional police director.
He thanked barangay officials and the families of the surrenderers for being supportive of the program.
Rehabilitation sessions were conducted four hours a day from Monday to Friday, 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Camp Delgado Chapel and whole day during Saturdays.
On Oct. 31, 2016 the first batch of drug dependents – 42 – completed the PRO-6 rehabilitation program administered by the Sobering Our Barangay and Empowering Recovery (SOBER) Intervention Team, a community-based rehabilitation treatment designed by Recovery Program Foundation, Inc. based in Cagayan de Oro City.
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p class=”NewStyle15″>One of the pioneer graduates, a 41-year-old man who asked not to be identified and invoked his privacy, said he had been a shabu user for four years.
He said he promised his family not to snort shabu again.
While undergoing rehabilitation, clients of the PRO-6 program were subjected to drug tests thrice – at the start of the program, halfway through the program, and right before their scheduled graduation.
From the second batch of clients, two failed their drug tests. They were thus not allowed to graduate and were included in the third batch for another round of rehabilitation.
In a previous interview, Gorero said clients failing drug tests twice faced a serious consequence – they would be charged with violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002./PN
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