Chương 2 Luật Phòng, chống ma túy 2000: Trách nhiệm phòng, chống ma túy

Chapter II

RESPONSIBILITIES FOR DRUG PREVENTION AND FIGHT

Article 6.- Individuals and families shall have the responsibility to:

1. Educate family members and relatives about harms caused by drug and the observance of law provisions on drug prevention and fight; strictly manage and prevent family members from involving in drug-related evils;

2. Strictly observe the doctors’ instructions on the use of addictive medicines and entripetalneurotropic medicines for treatment of ailments;

3. Oppose drug-related illegal acts committed by relatives and other persons;

4. Participate in or support activities related to drug detoxication at detoxication establishments and communities; monitor and help persons who have given up drug addiction to integrate into the community; prevent and combat the relapse into addiction.

Article 7.- Individuals, families, agencies and organizations have the responsibility to detect and promptly supply information on drug-related evils to police offices or other competent bodies. The competent State bodies shall have to consider and settle in time the information and denunciations on drug-related evils.

Article 8.-

1. Individuals, families, agencies and organizations have the responsibility to detect and promptly report to the competent State bodies the cultivation of narcotic-bearing plants; actively participate in the destruction of narcotic-bearing crops, organized by local administration.

2. In regions where the narcotic-bearing plants must be got rid of, the State bodies shall, within the scope of their respective tasks and powers, have the responsibility to organize the implementation of the State’s undertaking and policies on the development of agricultural and forestry production to substitute the cultivation of narcotic-bearing plants; plan appropriate agricultural, forestry, industrial and service structure so that people shift their production with efficiency.

Article 9.- The Vietnam Fatherland Front and its member organizations as well as other organizations shall, within the scope of their respective tasks and powers, have the responsibility to:

1. Organize and coordinate with competent bodies in the propagation and education among people about knowledge and legislation on drug prevention and fight; build a healthy and civilized social environment;

2. Prevent and stay their people and all citizens from involving in drug- related evils;

3. Supervise the drug prevention and fight activities in agencies, schools, other educational institutions and population quarters;

4. Coordinate with the administrations at all levels and competent bodies in mobilizing drug addicts to give up addiction; participate in providing education and job-training and seeking jobs for and helping people who have given up addiction integrate into the community; prevent and combat the relapse into addiction.

Article 10.- The schools and other educational institutions have the responsibility to:

1. Organize the implementation of the education program on drug prevention and fight; to educate pupils, students and trainees in the legislation on drug prevention and fight as well as the healthy way of life; strictly manage and prevent pupils, students and trainees from involving in drug-related evils;

2. Coordinate with families, agencies, organizations and local administration in managing and educating pupils, students and trainees about drug prevention and fight;

3. Coordinate with health bodies and local administration in organizing tests when necessary in order to detect drug addicts among pupils, students and trainees.

Article 11.- The State agencies and people’s armed force units shall, within the scope of their tasks and powers, have to organize the drug prevention and fight in their respective agencies and units; to prevent and stay their officials and employees, officers and men of the people’s armed force units from involving in drug-related evils; to propagate and encourage officials and employees as well as officers and men of people’s armed force units and people to detect, denounce and combat the drug-related evils.

Article 12.- The information and propagada agencies have the responsibility to coordinate with agencies, organizations and people’s armed force units in organizing the propagation and education of people in realizing clearly the harms caused by drug; the State’s undertakings, policies, legislation and measures on drug prevention and fight.

Article 13.-

1. The drug prevention and fight agencies of the people’s police force may carry out the following activities:

a) Assuming the prime responsibility and coordinating with the concerned agencies to carry out activities to prevent and fight drug-related crimes in the border and inland regions;

b) Applying necessary scouting measures to detect drug-related crimes;

c) Requesting expertise of necessary specimen, bio-product samples to detect drug-related crimes;

d) Requesting concerned individuals, families, agencies and/or organizations to supply information, documents, financial situation and accounts at banks when there are grounds to believe that acts prescribed in Clauses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8, Article 3 of this Law are committed;

e) Requesting post offices to open parcels, postal matters for inspection when there are grounds to believe that such parcels, postal matters contain narcotic substance, pre-substances, addictive medicines, entripetalneurotropic medicines;

f) Applying necessary measures to protect denouncers, witnesses and victims in drug-related cases.

2. Individuals, families, agencies and organizations defined at Points d and e of Clause 1 of this Article shall have to strictly satisfy the requests of drug prevention and fight agencies, if any.

3. The Government shall specify the conditions, procedures, competence and responsibility of the drug prevention and fight agencies in carrying out activities prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article.

Article 14.-

1. Individuals, families, agencies and organizations participating in drug prevention and combat activities shall be protected and kept confidential by the State.

2. Where individuals, families, agencies and/or organizations participating in drug prevention and fight suffer from material losses, they shall be compensated therefor by the State; where individuals are injured, harmed in their health or lose their lives, they themselves or their families shall be entitled to special regimes and policies as prescribed by the Government.

3. Police offices, customs offices, border guards, coast guards, procuracies, courts and administration at all levels shall, within the scope of their tasks and powers, have to implement the provisions in Clause 1 of this Article.