Mobile Drug Awareness Programmes

The Board has recently expended outreach drug prevention activities to the Underserved Settlements in Colombo through the outreach officers as it has been recognized as a high drug prevalence city. Outreach officers are the key social mobilizes who are working closely with the drug dependents to recover them from the addiction as well as to make aware the public on drug prevention and treatment services of the Board. Objectives of the programmes were :

    To make aware the public on drug prevention and treatment services of the Board .

    To reduce the vulnerability of youth in high risk areas towards drug abuse.

    To register & admit drug dependents for NDDCB treatment centers.