Chinanews.com, Guangzhou, June 26th, topic: Yang Weigen, a Guangzhou anti-drug preacher who has been "reborn from the sea of ​​poison" for 20 years

　　China News Service reporter Fang Weibin

　　"On June 26, 2005, at Conghua No. 3 Middle School, I started my first lecture on the topic of rebirth from the sea of ​​drugs." Yang Weigen, a social worker at the Jiekou Street Community Drug Rehabilitation (Rehabilitation) Workstation in Conghua District, Guangzhou, told reporters that since 2002 After leaving the drug rehab center and successfully detoxing for 20 years, he embarked on the road of anti-drug propaganda.

　　Yang Weigen is an anti-drug preacher in Guangzhou, but in the past he was a "three-in-the-gong" addict.

For many years, he has been devoted to anti-drug propaganda, and local primary and secondary school students call him Uncle Gen. In 2017, he was named the first "civil anti-drug person" in Guangzhou.

A few days ago, the reporter visited the rehabilitation workstation where Uncle Gen is located.

　　Uncle Gen’s studio in the workstation has a simple layout, with a floor-to-ceiling color painting painted on one wall that is particularly eye-catching.

Yang Weigen told reporters that every time he preached, he used his own experience to warn young people, especially students in school, to build the Great Wall of Anti-drug in the hearts of young people.

　　The reporter learned from the Guangdong Provincial Anti-Narcotics Office that the issue of the transfer and distribution of overseas drugs in Guangdong is still surging.

Following traditional drugs and new drugs, third-generation drugs and new psychoactive substances emerge in an endless stream and penetrate in multiple forms.

Yang Weigen said: "The challenge of anti-drug work is even greater now. Today's drugs are rich in variety, and new drugs are more confusing to young people."

　　For more than ten years, Yang Weigen has been adhering to anti-drug propaganda. So far, he has carried out more than 500 anti-drug propaganda and propaganda activities, affecting more than 100,000 people.

Yang Weigen was interviewed by a reporter from Chinanews.com.

Photo by Chen Chuhong

　　"Once you take drugs, you want drugs all your life, and the 'drug' is the most difficult to quit." Yang Weigen talked about the past. In the 1990s, he went into the sea to do business and quickly dug up the first pot of gold in his life.

However, he was infected with heroin in the process of doing business, and he started a drug rehabilitation career with three in and three outs for more than ten years.

　　These experiences have become a fascinating and vivid experience of Yang Weigen's anti-drug preaching.

As a result of repeatedly going in and out of the drug rehab center, his son said: "People who always make the same mistakes are the stupidest people in the world." And this sentence has been beating Yang Weigen, he successfully detoxified in 2002.

　　"After I got rid of drugs, I was actually very hesitant. On the one hand, I was afraid that the society would discriminate against me, and on the other hand, I had no confidence in the future. Fortunately, I have the support of my family and the concern of the government." In 2005, Uncle Gen had no intention of He learned that the anti-drug department of Conghua District was recruiting anti-drug social workers, so he wrote a letter to recommend himself, in order to be the first volunteer of the anti-drug volunteer team in Conghua District.

　　Because of his anti-drug work, Yang Weigen became a local celebrity. In 2018, the "Uncle Gen Anti-drug Volunteer Service Team" was established. In addition to the police officers, social workers, and psychological counselors who met during the anti-drug activities on weekdays, the team members were also like him. "come here".

　　Yang Weigen emphasized that many people who have used drugs have low self-esteem.

Uncle Gen has accompanied and encouraged Xiao Huang (pseudonym) from 2008 to 2020. During this period, Xiao Huang had failed to detoxify several times. Uncle Gen never gave up and insisted on using actions to influence Xiao Huang.

　　Uncle Gen actively participated in various anti-drug publicity activities, helped one drug addict get rid of drug control, and saved one family after another.

A Dong (pseudonym), a disabled person, has been addicted to heroin for many years. Yang Weigen has been paying close attention to A Dong's condition and has taken him to meet methadone treatment many times; After returning home to Tianqiao, Uncle Gen took the initiative to help him apply for affordable housing and put him in the service team.

　　Under the encouragement of Uncle Gen, community rehabilitation personnel for drug rehabilitation in Jiekou Street, Conghua District will take the initiative to participate in testing and reporting to relevant departments, and actively perform relevant drug rehabilitation and rehabilitation protocols.

Up to now, the connection rate, registration rate and execution rate of drug rehabilitation and community rehabilitation personnel in the community of Conghua Jiekou Street have reached 100%.

　　There is a slogan that can be seen on the side of Uncle Gen’s desk: Anti-drug assistance and education must have three hearts: love, patience, and perseverance;

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