CIJ has almost 42 years of experience in the field of drugs and carries out activities directed to the prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and scientific research on drug consumption in Mexico.

The Operating Staff is composed of more than one thousand workers. Most of them are mental health professionals. Over than six thousand volunteers work to support them. This allows the institution to provide assistance to three million and five hundred people annually with prevention and public awareness programs. Also, seventy thousand patients and their relatives are provided with treatment.

The National Operative Network of Care consists of  113 Centers, some of them are Hospitalization Units 2 are Heroin Substitution and Maintenance Programs.

The drug assistance and care is provided by multidisciplinary health teams mental health professionals) and incorporates the active and organized community’s participation. The preventive services are free of charge. A symbolic sum assigned by the results of a social-economic study is requested in treatment-rehabilitation. Therefore, the majority of users do not pay any fees or costs.