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ASOD's current initiatives on drugs are based on the ASEAN Three-Year Plan of Action on Drug Abuse Control that was adopted at the 17th ASOD meeting held in October 1994. Prepared by the ASEAN Secretariat and with funding support from the UNDP, the action plan covers four priority areas: preventive drug education, treatment and rehabilitation; enforcement; and research.


These programmes are complemented by the efforts of four training centres in the region: the ASEAN Training Centre for Narcotics Law Enforcement in Bangkok, the ASEAN Training Centre for Preventive Drug Education in Manila, the ASEAN Training Centre for Treatment and Rehabilitation in Kuala Lumpur and the ASEAN Training Centre for the Detection of Drugs in Body Fluids in Singapore.


The ASEAN Training Centre for Narcotics Law Enforcement was established shortly after the Fourth ASEAN Drug Experts' Meeting in 1979 recommended that the ASEAN countries recognise the need for specialised training to improve national services and strengthen the regional network of narcotics law-enforcement. Key activities undertaken by the centre include: organizing from 1980 to 1988 nine ASEAN narcotics law-enforcement training courses participated by all member countries with the help of the US Government and setting up a three-year training project to meet ASEAN's needs for long-term projects with the support of the United Nations Development Programme.


The ASEAN Training Centre for Preventive Drug Education in Manila was established in 1982 for the specific objective of protecting children and youth from drug abuse through vigorous and unified preventive drug education programmes. The Centre's work includes:
" setting up a long-range plan of activities in preventive drug education in schools and communities in each ASEAN member country;
" coordinating the implementation of the long-range plan; assisting in the development of an effective and comprehensive drug education programme in schools and communities in each ASEAN member country;
" conducting continuing research and evaluation in assessing types of training programmes, new approaches, content and instructional materials;
" planning and carrying out orientation programmes in preventive drug education for school administrators and training programmes for educators, designers, practitioners, police and criminal justice officers and community leaders; and developing and validating the evaluation instruments for education programmes to prevent drug abuse.
and special projects and activities.

 

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