The Spanish Red Cross Foundation for Attention to Drug Addiction (CREFAT) has learned of the "Queen Sofía Award for Social Work" to the network of drug dependency care centers in Lanzarote, an award that constitutes one of the most important distinctions at the national level in action against the problems derived from drug use, according to a statement.
The drug dependency care network in Lanzarote is financed by the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands and the Island Council and has a complete therapeutic circuit made up of a wide variety of centers and programs that allow comprehensive care to be offered to drug-dependent patients and their families.
This island network that has been awarded is made up of an Outpatient Drug Dependency Care Unit (UAD); a Day Center; a Therapeutic Community and a Hospital Detoxification Unit, all complemented by a methadone maintenance program and legal, prevention and reintegration services.
The General Directorate of Attention to Drug Dependencies wishes to express its most cordial and sincere congratulations to the professionals and volunteers who daily carry out their work in these resources, whose work and effort, carried out for 20 years, have been deservedly recognized with the granting of this award for social work in drug dependencies.
Likewise, the General Directorate wishes to express its satisfaction because the aforementioned distinction is a source of pride for this institution -and for all Canarians in general-, since this award is a clear exponent of the quality and motivation that encourages all the people who work daily in the prevention and care of this problem.
In addition, the reason for pride should be twofold, since this is the fifth time that a drug dependency care service in the Islands has been awarded the Queen Sofía Award against Drugs, which means recognition, once again, of the work that has been carried out in the Canary Islands in the field of drug dependency.
Other resources awarded in previous editions have been the San Miguel Youth Cooperation Association, in 1991; the Yrichen Social Action Center, in 1997; the Institute for the Study of Addictions (IEA), in 2001 and the Fortaleza de Ansite Therapeutic Community, in 2004.
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