National Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention
Programme
Vision
To eradicate the use of illicit drugs and the
indiscriminate use of licit drugs in Trinidad and Tobago.
Mission
To develop, coordinate, facilitate, implement
and evaluate national efforts to reduce demand for licit
and illicit drugs.
Objectives
- To develop the research capacity for continuous
assessment of the extent and peculiarities of the problem
of alcohol and other illicit substances.
- To develop a cohesive and well coordinated
partnership among:
- government agencies
- non-governmental organisations
- community groups
- international agencies
- foreign governments
in the offensive against alcohol and other illicit
substances.
- To effect improvement in the health and well-being of
the population through instituting appropriate alcohol
and other drug-related policies and legislation.
- To reduce demand by the nation's population for
alcohol and other drugs, through the development of:
- a Public Education and Information Programme
- a Community-Based Prevention Activities
Programme
- a School Prevention Programme
- a Treatment and Rehabilitation Programme
- an Employee Assistance Programme.
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