"Sunshine Project" – A New Guizhou Model: A Solution to Worldwide Drug Rehabilitation Challenges or Not? (6)

Suggestion 1:

About management of the rehabilitated: this group of people bears lower productivity together with uncontrollable possibilities and uncertainties. As a result, the “Sunshine Enterprises” are bound to lag behind of normal companies and hard to sustain for long. So I wonder if we could gain seamless linkage between the drug treatment center and the placement sites to ensure the rehabilitated become qualified for their jobs upon receiving the placement by means of seeking appropriate posts for them and offering skills training in advance before they are released from the center. Besides, we may classify them into two teams for targeted relief and different level of psychobiological treatment, those with long term of drug taking and with relapse records will be allocated to concentrated placement sites while those who take drugs for the first time and with short term of drug abuse to decentralized sites.

Suggestion 2:

On personnel security issues: the smooth development of the "Sunshine Project" is inseparable from the hard work of basic-level staff. Lots of executives, such as community policemen, full-time anti-drug officials, medical personnel would be required in the future, there may problems exist in staffing and/or wage levels. Currently, wages for grassroots staff like full-time anti-drug officials are not high. So I wonder whether the government revenue could spare more on investment in sustaining such backbones engaged in this project. In addition, the anti-drug professionals should be more professional through trainings, and may also get volunteers and psychologists involved in the task.