| THE MINISTRY OF LABOR, WAR INVALIDS AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS - THE MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH - THE MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY ----- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ------- |
| No: 01/2003/TTLT/BLDTBXH-BYT-BCA | Hanoi , January 24, 2003 |
JOINT CIRCULAR
GUIDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A NUMBER OF ARTICLES OF THE GOVERNMENT’S DECREE No. 56/2002/ND-CP OF MAY 15, 2002 ON ORGANIZATION OF THE FAMILY- OR COMMUNITY-BASED REHABILITATION FOR DRUG ADDICTS
On May 15, 2002, the Government promulgated Decree No. 56/2002/ND-CP on organization of the family- or community-based rehabilitation for drug addicts. The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Public Security hereby agree to guide the implementation of a number of articles of this Decree as follows:
I. SUBJECT TO THE FAMILY- OR COMMUNITY-BASED REHABILITATION
Form of the family- or community-based rehabilitation applies to all drug addicts residing in the community, except those falling in one of the following cases:
1. Being subject to compulsory consignment to rehabilitation establishments;
2. Being subject to measures of education in communes, wards or townships;
3. Being subject to measures of consignment to reformatory schools;
4. Being subject to measures of consignment to education camps;
5. Being examined for penal liability for illegal use of narcotic substances;
6. Having been detoxicated in families or communities but still being addicted.
II. WORKING TEAMS FOR REHABILITATION OF DRUG ADDICTS
1. Working teams’ membership
The presidents of the People’s Committees of communes, wards or townships (hereafter called the commune-level for short) shall make decisions to set up the working teams for family- or community-based rehabilitation for drug addicts (hereafter called the working teams for short), which shall assist the commune-level People’s Committees in organizing the rehabilitation. A working team shall be composed of a vice president of the commune-level People’s Committee, social or socio-cultural workers, health workers, commune, ward or township policemen and a number of officials of other departments, branches and mass organizations of the same level.
Basing themselves on the specific situation and organizational structures of their localities, the presidents of the commune-level People’s Committees shall decide on the number of members and designate officials as the standing members of the working teams.
