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HM King Mohammed VI inaugurated, in Sidi Moumen district, an addiction centre, the second of its kind carried out by the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity in the city of Casablanca.

Worth 6.5 million dirhams, this project shows the royal solicitude for the youth and HM the King's resolve to preserve them from any deviation or social vagaries and to create an environment that would encourage them to fully participate in social life.
The facility, which is a tool for health care, diagnosis, prevention, awareness raising and psychological and social support, falls within the framework of the national program to fight addictive behaviours, implemented since 2010 at the royal instructions by the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity in partnership with the health and interior ministries.

The national program is aimed at protecting young people against the use of psychoactive drugs, ameliorate the medical care for addicted people mainly drug users, improve access to similar facilities, and promote the involvement of civil society and social departments in addiction-related problems. It also provides assistance for the beneficiaries' families to face the dangerous consequences of addictive behaviours.
Like the centres built by the Foundation in Casablanca (Ibn Rochd university hospital centre), Rabat, Oujda, Nador, Marrakech, Tetouan, Tangiers, Fez and Agadir, the Sidi Moumen centre seeks to boost the social reintegration of these people and provide supervision and training for associations in the risk reduction field through on-field support for young drug users and those with an addition risk.
The new centre includes a department for social support and risk reduction housing a reception area, rooms for body and artistic expression, sports, computer sciences, and an office for associations. It also comprises a mobile unit office for community intervention for drug users, missions for contact, information, risk awareness, prevention means and guidance to treatment sites.

This new facility, under the Casablanca-Settat community-based socio-medical program (2016-2020), houses also a medical department including rooms for treatment, consultations in general medicine, addiction, and psychiatry, an area for group psychotherapy, rooms for methadone users, a day hospital (2 beds), an infirmary and a pharmacy.