Manila, April 25 -- A total of 8,390 Recovering Persons Who Used Drugs (RPWUDs) have been reintegrated into their families and communities since 2021 through the Department of Social Welfare and Development's (DSWD) Yakap Bayan Program (YBP), spokesperson Irene Dumlao said on Thursday.

Dumlao said the YBP provided RPWUDs with aftercare and eventual social reintegration services, such as relapse prevention sessions, counseling sessions, health and fitness therapy, spiritual interventions, and skills training, among others, to improve their well-being and social functioning.

"The YBP is a holistic intervention of the DSWD which adopts human rights-based approaches to assist RPWUDs, their families and communities toward recovery," Dumlao, ...