The Enforcement and Control Directorate oversees developing strategies to halt the country’s illicit drug cultivation, manufacturing, and distribution.
It seeks to reduce the import and export of narcotic drugs and plants, as well as precursor chemicals by land, air and water bodies. In executing this, the Directorate collaborates with the relevant agencies to control and monitor the practices and procedures that could result in the importation and exportation of narcotic drugs and plants as well as precursor chemicals.
The Demand Reduction Directorate adopts measures to reduce the demand for and harm caused by the use of narcotic drugs and plants through education and treatment and rehabilitation of persons with substance use disorders.
Awareness generation programmes in schools, workplaces and other institutions, increase in community participation and public cooperation, awareness generation through social, print, digital and online media and treatment and counselling are amongst the initiatives employed to keep the public away from the use of drugs.
The Directorate also conduct baseline studies and surveys on the abuse of and dealings in narcotic drugs and plants in Ghana.
On treatment and rehabilitation, the Commission works together with the Ghana Prison Service, Treatment centres and communities to provide drug addicts and substance users with counselling and psychoeducation.
It also promotes long-term alternative livelihood initiatives for communities involved in the illegal cultivation of narcotic plants, with a focus on the indigenes’ sociocultural orientation as a means of effectively combating the drug problem.
