April 16, 2011
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kevin Rudd, talks with a child at the Ho Chi Minh City Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Center on Wednesday (April 13) Australia has pledged to continue supporting Vietnam in higher education, which is among the key priorities in bilateral relations between the two countries, Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said Wednesday. [...]
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December 2, 2009
A patient was examined at the drug rehabilitation centre in Tu Liem District, Hanoi.LookAtVietnam – Hanoi inaugurated its first drug rehabilitation centre using methadone. The city will have five more methadone centres in the near future. This centre is based in Tu Liem District. Hanoi is the third city in Vietnam to have drug rehabilitation centre [...]
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November 13, 2009
LookAtVietnam – New equipment will be bought for three vocational training centres for former drug addicts in HCM City. Former drug addicts work at the Phu Van Embroidery Centre in HCM City. The city will invest around US$500,000 to upgrade equipment for job training in vocational centres for former drug addicts.Nguyen Van Minh, deputy head [...]
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October 10, 2009
Hundreds of children living in a rough downtown Ho Chi Minh City neighborhood are forced to take up the dual gauntlet of drug addiction and crime every day. A downtown HCMC area where crime is almost a way of life leaves children defenseless and vulnerable.Hundreds of children living in a rough downtown Ho Chi Minh [...]
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August 19, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Rehabilitating drug addicts in the city are relapsing at an increasing rate and it’s getting more difficult to keep them under management, Drug addicts work in a brick producing enterprise in HCM City. Such enterprises help the city authorities better manage recovered addicts. The number of addicts under management in the first five [...]
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July 28, 2009
Experimental treatment of drug addiction by Methadone in HCM City and Hai Phong has shown good results. Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong told the Health Ministry to widely apply this method. Drug addicts practise woodwork at a rehabilitation centre in the northern province of Son La. Of 1431 individuals heavily addicted to drugs in HCM [...]
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June 15, 2009
Police search two youths suspected of buying heroin on Ben Binh Dong Street in District 8. Drug-related robberies plague the city as convicts discharged from rehab canât cut the habit. Mai The Vu and Nguyen Hong Phuoc tracked a car full of businessmen they knew were carrying a large sum of cash.Sure enough, when the [...]
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May 30, 2009
The use of amphetamines by young people is on the rise in Vietnam while the country has no rehabilitation centers catering to addicts of the stimulant, experts warn. Simon Baldwin of the Family Health International said a changing socioeconomic environment had pushed many local youths into using drugs as the face of daily life changes [...]
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May 16, 2009
Nearly two months after the first 8-week computer game rehabilitation course closed, Pham Le Long, a 13-year-old game addict, and nearly 20 other gamers have escaped from their addiction to return to the real world. The first online game rehab class in HCM City last November. “I only surf the web for around one hour a [...]
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May 12, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Sitting on a bed in the Paediatric Department at the Viet Nam National Hospital of Acupuncture, the soon-to-be-discharged Nguyen Van Thang, 7, keeps talking about the new school he will start and the new friends he will meet. Head of the Viet Nam National Hospital of Acupuncture’s Paediatrics Department Nguyen Thi Tu Anh [...]
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