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The DC also directed to put up the Buddy activities on WhatsApp groups which are being carried out in educational institutions. OOAT Center's too provide free treatment without getting the patient admitted, he said. She said now Buddy groups would be addressed by the gazetted officers against the drugs.Additional deputy commissioner Charandev Singh Mann said that the treatment of drug addicts is being done free of cost in the drug-de-addiction center and rehabilitation center in sector-66, Mohali . People at ward level to be mobilized against drugsMohali: None of the 5,000 drug abuse prevention officers (DAPOs) registered with the local administration has admitted a single drug addict to the nearest Outpatient Opioid Assisted Treatment (OOAT) centre in eight months.The project was launched with much fanfare by Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh on nartyrdom day of Shaheed Bhagat Singh , Rajguru and Sukhdev on March 23 at Khatkar Kalan in Punjab. The aim was to engage government employees and local citizens in the fight against drugs.The administrative machinery succeeded in engaging DAPO volunteers but failed to motivate them to identify and admit drug addicts from their respective areas to nearest rehabilitation centres.When deputy commissioner Gurpreet Kaur Sapra was asked to share the number of drug addicts identified and admitted to rehabilitation or OOAT centres by the DAPOs, she replied, “We do not have any such data..