Ecija drug rehab ‘grads’ see better future

RANDY, 23, pulled an 8.5 x 11-inch special colored paper from a brown legal-sized envelope that also contained a release order from the court and other important documents. He showed it off shyly but with a proud smile. That piece of paper is now everything to him—the passport to a new start.

It was the certificate given him and 53 other erstwhile confessed drug dependents who finished last week the required six to eight months program in the government drug rehabilitation center in Palayan City, Nueva Ecija.