My name is Garo Margossian, Founder and President of NFD – No For Drugs,founded on 26/06/2006 on The International Day Against Drug Abuse.
NFD-No For Drugs is an NGO that specializes in the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders.
While there are many NGO's operating in this sector, what makes NFD unique is that it aims to provide full-spectrum age and gender sensitive substance use services in-house, from prevention to treatment (detoxification, rehabilitation, social re-integration), and selective brief harm reduction programs for Men, Women, and Youth and Children.

Within the past 3 years, NFD-No For Drugs has invested heavily in the construction of the Men’s Center, located in Mount Lebanon (Hilane region). The center’s construction meets governmental regulations to operate as a Second Category Hospital – meaning that it can provide detoxification services and have a set number of beds, in addition to providing rehabilitation services and dispensing medication. The Men’s Center will be able to host 8 detoxification beds and 30 rehabilitation beds.
Despite the dire social, economic, and political circumstances, NFD-No For Drugs and its partners managed to construct the Men’s Center. While construction has been completed, with the current inflation rate, we are left short of essential funds needed to operationalize the center – to recruit Detox/Rehabilitation staff, and to purchase the necessary furniture and medical equipment.

In 2019, a national mapping of services exercise conducted by the Ministry of Public Health in Lebanon also showed an unprecedented and unmet need in services for women with substance use disorders who often experience additional gender-specific burdens (exchanging sex for money, unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, domestic abuse, etc.) and rarely find services suitable for them while attending to the needs of children. In-line with its strategic mission, NFD-No For Drugs has begun laying the foundations of the Women’s Center and is actively looking for partners, donors, and investors who are willing and able to support its construction and operationalization.

We aim to see all people (men, women, young people, etc.) receive holistic care and live free from the physical, psychological, social, economic, and legal burdens of substance use. It is my intent to seek out interested parties who share this deeply rooted assignment of ours and who are interested in supporting our cause.

Join us in our battle in order to put Hope within reach of every person in need.