DILG eyes sticker campaign to mark drug-free households

Interior and Local Government Secretary Mike Sueno on Wednesday said it planned to mark drug-free households with stickers as part of a new strategy against illegal drugs.

Sueno bared the plans as the Duterte administration looked to identify drug-free homes in the communities.

“The stickers will urge families as well as their neighbors to keep their neighborhood drug-resistant. It’s a non-violent and encouraging approach, in fact a positive reinforcement,” Sueno said.

Sueno said houses with no stickers will be the subject of intervention from barangay officials, the Philippine National Police, and other local peace and order council to encourage members of the household to mend their ways.

He said the DILG was still coordinating with the PNP and other sectors on how to determine whether or not a house was drug-free.

“We are now in the process of consultation and dialogue with the Philippine National Police, the barangays and other sectors to come up with an effective criteria on how we would be able to distinguish which houses in the barangays are drug-free or not,” Sueno said.

He said the government's war on drugs needs to be sustained by focusing on families where “real change must start at the level of homes.”

“Change starts in homes. For a nation to transform, change must emanate from the smallest unit of sociey: families,” the DILG chief said. —Joseph Tristan Roxas/NB, GMA News