The Alcohol and Drug Information Centre (ADIC) – Sri Lanka was inaugurated in April 1987 and was established as an independent organization in 1990. Today the Alcohol and Drug Information Centre (ADIC) Sri Lanka has developed to be a well recognized Resource Centre, promoting drug demand reduction.
For more than 25 years, ADIC has contributed substantially by introducing innovative and science-based drug demand reduction strategies in Sri Lanka and to other countries especially in the South-Asian and South-East Asian region. UNODC has identified ADIC as the leading agency in the Asian region.
ADIC’s vision is to create a world where every person realizes that use of whatever drug at whatever level is an impediment to happiness. And ADIC’s mission is to prevent drug use through social change and effective education.
ADIC designs interventions to foster demand reduction in drug use based on a holistic approach and the organizational structure is designed to reflect this thinking, comprising six different programmes:
- Human Development and Innovative Intervention Programme,
- Strategic Intervention Programme,
- Social Mobilization Programme,
- Policy Advocacy and Litigation Programme,
- Research & Information Programme,
- Media advocacy programme and
- Finance & Administration Programme.
ADIC’s work to empower the grassroots reaches diverse communities. Collaborations with a range of government organizations, non-government organizations, and community based organizations have resulted in implementation of a large number of interventions directed at numerous target groups across the entire country.
