{"id":49303,"date":"2025-06-04T16:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49303"},"modified":"2025-06-05T16:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:06:26","slug":"national-action-plan-for-drug-demand-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-action-plan-for-drug-demand-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Union government has invited proposals to set up District De-Addiction Centres (DDACs) in 291 \u201cgap\u201d districts across 30 States and Union Territories in the country as part of its National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction.<\/p>\n<h2>About National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>centrally sponsored scheme<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim:<\/strong>\u00a0Reduction of adverse consequences of drug abuse through a\u00a0<strong>multi-pronged strategy: education, de-addiction,<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>rehabilitation<\/strong>\u00a0of affected individuals and families.<\/li>\n<li>Under this scheme\u00a0<strong>financial assistance is\u00a0<\/strong>provided to\n<ul>\n<li><strong>State Governments<\/strong>\/ Union Territory (UT) Administrations for Preventive Education and Awareness Generation, Capacity Building, Programmes for Drug Demand Reduction by States\/UTs etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NGOs\/VOs<\/strong>\u00a0for running and maintenance of Integrated Rehabilitation Centres for Addicts (IRCAs), Integrated Rehabilitation Centres (IRCAs), Community Peer-led Interventions (CPLI) Outreach and Drop-in Centres (ODIC) and\u00a0<strong>District De-Addiction Centres<\/strong>\u00a0(DDACs); and<\/li>\n<li><strong>Government Hospitals<\/strong>\u00a0for Addiction Treatment Facilities (ATFs)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Target Period: 2018-2025<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Objectives of National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Create awareness and educate people on the\u00a0<strong>ill-effects of drug abuse<\/strong>, reduce stigmatization, and facilitate social reintegration.<\/li>\n<li>Develop human resources and build capacity.<\/li>\n<li>Facilitate research, training, documentation, innovation, and information collection.<\/li>\n<li>Provide community-based services for identification, motivation, counseling, de-addiction, after-care, and rehabilitation for Whole Person Recovery (WPR).<\/li>\n<li>Formulate and implement comprehensive guidelines, schemes, and programs using a multi-agency approach.<\/li>\n<li>Address all\u00a0<strong>forms of drug abuse.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Alleviate the consequences of drug dependence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0Which is the nodal ministry for drug demand reduction in India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0The Ministry of Social Justice &amp; Empowerment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the Action Plan for Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Nasha Mukt Bharat Campaign is a three-pronged attack combining the supply curb by Narcotics Control Bureau, Outreach and Awareness and Demand Reduction effort by Social Justice and Empowerment and treatment through Health Department.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/centre-calls-for-proposals-to-set-up-de-addiction-centres-in-291-gap-districts\/article69649633.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction is a centrally sponsored scheme focused on prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of drug abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[696,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-national-action-plan-for-drug-demand-reduction","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}