"Sunshine Project": Double Implications of Innovating Social Management on Drug Control and Ensuring the Human Rights of Drug Addicts (3)

In the "Sunshine Project," the treatment for "drug rehabilitation," specified in the Anti-drug Law, is emphasized. The “Sunshine Project” enables to carry out such a complex social project in communities, and to solve problems in an environment where drug rehabilitation personnel may access drugs any time. This catches the key point, and helps truly carry out the treatment specified in the legislation. It is a very important development direction of drug control work. The "Sunshine Project" features physical detoxification, physical and mental recovery, job placement, and integration into the society. The "job placement" refers to solving problems by paying attention to the basic needs of drug rehabilitation personnel, which is a major concept change. Drug abuse is a personal fault, and drug addiction is morbidness. Drug addicts have the obligation of receiving treatment, and the society has the obligation of providing assistance. Drug rehabilitation and recovery is a process of long-term self rescue and social rescue and interaction.

That the "Sunshine Project" is said to be a banner of China’s innovation for the social management on drug control is because that the "Sunshine Project" in Guizhou formulates specific and special social policies, officially solves the problem that drug addicts harm the society through institutionalization for the first time, and effectively solves the social problem of “once drug abuse and lifetime rehabilitation,” so as to help drug addicts return to the society brightly and make their own contributions to families and the society. Meanwhile, the project combines the management on both symptoms and root causes, puts people first, and fully respects and ensures the human rights of drug addicts. It adopts rigid management and sets up a social management structure led by the government and participated by multiple parties, so as to ensure the development results of the whole country and society are shared by all people in the society. The "Sunshine Project" in Guizhou ensures the rights of drug addicts to survive and develop, and establishes a safety system to protect the survival of drug addicts across the province. The project is inclusive, and integrates the employment of drug addicts into planning to gradually build a modern service system that can widely serve the members of the society across the province. The "Sunshine Project" eliminates the discrimination and exclusion of the society with trust and care to gradually establish a trust system that can promote social integration across the province. These all fully reflect that Guizhou has achieved breakthrough progress in social management besides social development, and has adjusted various kinds of social conflicts and problems in an orderly state. The success of the "Sunshine Project" lies in the fact that it gives special care to drug addicts, and maintains social safety and order, and the basic interests of the broad masses to the maximum; creatively integrates government departments, formulates new policies based on local conditions, and has established a "joint mechanism" involving multiple departments by breaking the traditional unified integration of government agencies, which has won strong support of enterprises, the society, and the market. It can be said that the new mode of employment-oriented drug control developed in Guizhou realizes the major transcension of traditional administrative mode for drug control. The new mode focuses on the career development of drug rehabilitation personnel, provides a real platform for drug rehabilitation personnel to return to the society, and establishes new policies and opens up new ways to realize drug rehabilitation objectives.