Drug manual
February 4, 2015
Drug manual
Professor Wendel Abel (left) shows off the new Adolescent Drug Treatment Programme manual at the launch of the one-week training workshop for professionals to deal with substance abuse and mental illness in children and teens. Looking on from left are: Health Minister, Dr Fenton Ferguson; Executive Director of the National Council on Drug Abuse, Michael Tucker; Corporate Communications Manager, Flow, Naomi Francis; Senior Resident Magistrate and Judge, Family Court Paula Blake Powell; and OAS Representative to Jamaica, Jeanelle van GlaanenWeygel. Flow has donated $250,000 to help develop the manual and train professionals to deal with drug addiction in the youth population. Some 50 professionals will be trained.
