Former and recovering drug addicts took an oath to leave addiction behind forever at a reunion at the Kuakata sea beach in Patuakhali, yesterday.
Barisal Holy Care Drug Addiction Treatment Assistance and Rehabilitation Centre organised the two-day reunion where different other organisations working in the same field under Bangladesh Drug Addict Rehabilitation Society also participated.
The event, with its slogan “No addiction in future, we have to run a long way in life,” included exchanging views and experiences, a human chain, a rally, flying lanterns, an oath taking ceremony and a cultural function.
The participants also cleaned the sea beach as part of the reunion.
More than 100 rehabilitated and recovering addicts from different parts of the country attended the event.
Mustafizur Rahman Sumon, convener, Shafikur Rahman Khokan, member secretary of the programme arrangement committee, Ruman Imtiaz Tushar, president of Kuakata Press Club, Motaleb Sharif, president of Kuakata Hotel Motel Resort Association, and Abdul Barek Molla, former UP chairman, addressed the participants in different sessions, among others.
The speakers said recovery from drug addiction is never out of reach, no matter how hopeless the situation seems.
They urged everyone not to give up the recovery struggle, even if there is a history of failure.
