Objectives:
- To help PSAs abstain from their drug-taking habits and develop a healthy lifestyle;
- To increase the awareness of those vulnerable to drug abuse and to steer them away from drugs;
- To reach out to PSAs for timely and early intervention;
- To provide counselling and assistance to family members of PSAs so as to help them deal with
the problems;
- To provide professional training for allied professionals with a view to facilitating their
assistance to PSAs;
- To maintain active collaboration with stakeholders concerned, e.g. young people service units,
police, schools, medical practitioners etc. in the identification and intervention process for PSAs;
- To provide preventive education and publicity programs to students of secondary schools,
post-secondary institutions, and vocational training organizations, and the general public at
community level; and
- To motivate PSAs to seek early assistance and stay with the treatment program through medical
support services.
Target Group of Service:
- Habitual / occasional / potential Psychotropic Substance
Abusers (PSAs).
- Youth who is at risk and without awareness on impact of
psychotropic substance abuse.
- Significant others of PSAs like family members, schools and
employers.
- Allied helping professionals / stakeholders for treatment and
rehabilitation for the PSAs like teachers, social workers,
medical professionals and community partners who are
concerned with the young psychotropic substance abusers.
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