Honeylet Avanceña to be guest of honor at PNP's drug rehab launch

President Rodrigo R. Duterte's common-law wife Cielito "Honeylet" Avanceña would be the guest of honor during Monday's launch of the Philippine National Police's (PNP) recovery program for drug suspects.

The PNP's drug recovery and wellness program was called LIFT or the Life After Tokhang.

"As guest of honor, Ms. Avanceña will witness the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement between the PNP and the NGO Life Rispondé Foundation Corporation to set into motion the PNP LIFT Program for drug users," the PNP said in a statement.

?Rispondé Foundation is a non-stock and non-profit foundation which had successfully managed community-based rehabilitation and outpatient recovery programs for drug user.

PNP Spokesperson Dionardo B. Carlos had explained earlier that LIFT was a community-based rehabilitation program, because the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs found that 90 percent of drug dependents did not need to undergo full rehabilitation which could last six to 12 months.

??According to PNP Director for Police Community Relations (DPCR) Director Noel Constantino, LIFT  complemented the Department of Health's drug rehabilitation and treatment program. — Jon Viktor Cabuenas/DVM, GMA News