{"id":139382,"date":"2016-11-28T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/139382\/take-a-stand-against-substance-abuse\/"},"modified":"2016-11-28T10:45:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T08:45:36","slug":"take-a-stand-against-substance-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/11\/28\/take-a-stand-against-substance-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a stand against substance abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Substance abuse has become an epidemic nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>One of the Department of Social Development\u2019s mandates is to render services to communities with regard to the combating of crime, especially related to substance abuse.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The Local Drug Action Committee (LDAC) is one of the intervention strategies utilised by the department to reach out to the community.<\/p>\n<p>The objective is to sensitise communities about the impact of substance abuse and its correlation to crime and other social ills, such as domestic violence, road accidents and mental illness.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In this regard, the Elsburg LDAC is holding a march against substance abuse on December 3, at 8am.<\/p>\n<p>The community must meet at Rondebult Secondary School, in Roodekop Street, Rondebult.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Const Daphney Phooko, the communications officer for the Elsburg SAPS, on 079 067 6675.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/139286\/have-you-seen-this-man-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Have you seen this man?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/139379\/father-arrested-for-alleged-rape-of-daughter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Father arrested for alleged rape of daughter<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='90125359190e0856120ee72c573aae2d'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The community is invited to take part in a march against substance abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":139465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,7,2],"tags":[13066,13064,979,969,13065,2846,2734,2473,13063],"class_list":["post-139382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-elsburg-ldac","tag-elsburg-saps-saps","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-local-drug-action-committee-ldac","tag-march","tag-melissa-hart","tag-rondebult","tag-substance-abuse"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Elsburg LDAC","elsburg saps. saps","germiston","germiston city news","Local Drug Action Committee (LDAC)","march","melissa hart","rondebult","substance abuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}