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New Delhi, Nov 27 (PTI) Under its month-long drug de-addiction campaign, the northwest district of Delhi Police admitted 20 people to rehabilitation centres, of whom three have "fully recovered" and been discharged, officials said on Saturday.
These three "fully recovered" men are now creating awareness and helping police personnel in motivating addicted people to go to rehabilitation centres with an aim to eradicate the menace of drugs from the society, they said.
Under the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, the northwest district initiated the month-long drug de-addiction campaign wherein it identified and counselled people often caught with drugs and those booked under the NDPS Act, they said.
In the past one month, more than 12 people were arrested with illicit drugs while 18 others were arrested under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act.
Over 430 people have been booked under the COTPA this year, police officials said.
Many of these offenders are young boys from financially weaker backgrounds, they said.