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| A drug prevention training course for workers in Phu Tho province __Photo: laodong.vn |
Drug prevention is not solely the responsibility of the competent authorities but requires the joint efforts of every family and society as a whole. In Phu Tho province, the synchronous implementation of solutions under the national target programme on drug prevention and combat through to 2030 is generating positive changes, tying anti-drug efforts to the goal of building safe communities.
Public communication and law dissemination and education have received special emphasis to raise the public awareness of drug harms and achieve early and proactive prevention. The public security forces at all levels have intensified direct outreach in residential areas, agencies, schools and enterprises, integrating these efforts with the “Action Month for Drug Prevention and Control”, the “International Day of Drug Prevention and Control”, and “National Day for Drug Prevention and Control”, as well as the “All People Protect National Security” movement across 148 communes and wards.
Alongside those activities, screening, statistical tracking and management of illegal narcotics users have been stepped up. In the first six months of 2026 alone, the local authorities detected and placed 802 illegal drug users, 279 drug addicts, and 492 persons having undergone rehabilitation under their management. They also conducted 15,483 drug tests, detecting 982 positive cases.
On the crime suppression front, the public security forces took down two drug dens and strictly handled 68 retail drug dealers, maintaining public order and security and preventing drug hotspots from emerging in communities.
Evidence from Ky Son ward, recognised as achieving the “drug-free” status in 2025, demonstrates the practical effectiveness of combining administrative, medical and community-based management measures. Thanks to this, the locality has seen no new drug users or drug-related crime hotspots emerge.
Nevertheless, sustaining these achievements requires persistent, continuous management by the functional agencies, coupled with support from the health sector and public security forces for drug addicts in reintegrating into the community through vocational training and job placement, preventing them from relapsing into addiction.
In 2025, Phu Tho province recognised 35 out of total 148 communes and wards as meeting the drug-free status criteria. In 2026, the province aims for over 30 per cent of communes and wards to attain such criteria, moving towards the target of at least 50 per cent of total administrative units by 2030 as set in the Resolution of the provincial Party Congress of the 2025-30 tenure.
The success of this movement affirms that when every citizen becomes an active agent in preventing, detecting and denouncing crime, combined with the specific responsibility of local Party Committees and authorities for drug-related crime control.- (VLLF)
