Drug rehabilitation is the process of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment for dependency

on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and street drugs such
as cannabis, cocaine, heroin or amphetamines. The general intent is to enable the patient to
confront substance dependence, if present, and cease substance abuse to avoid the psychological,
legal, financial, social, and physical consequences that can be caused, especially by extreme abuse.
Treatment includes medication for depression or other disorders, counseling by experts and sharing
of experience with other addicts.

It also needs to have barangay officials who are actively advocating for anti-drug
activities; a drug awareness, preventive education and information, and a voluntary and
compulsory drug treatment and rehabilitation processing desk.
Navotas conducts a community-based treatment and rehabilitation program called
Bidahan for drug users willing to change their ways.
Bidahan participants initially undergo a 3-day retreat where they learn about the effects
of drugs in their body and ways to avoid getting hooked into substance abuse.
They then engage in twice a week counseling session for six months.
Bidas, as the participants are called, undergo random drug testing to check their
faithfulness to the program.
Since it started in October 2016, the Bidahan now has 20 batches composed of 527
participants. Of this, 98 have completed the 6-month rehab program and seven have
finished the 18-month aftercare treatment.