Following the report of the select committee on drug addiction in 1985, the Trust Fund for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts was set up in June 1986.  In 1996, the drugs related problems were reviewed by a committee which was chaired by Mrs. Ragobur.  The report that followed resulted in the re-organisation of the said Trust Fund into NATReSA, National Agency for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Substance Abusers in December 1996.  NATReSA was operating since July 1997 as a statutory body under the aegis of the Ministry of Health & Quality of Life, until December 2000 when NATReSA was transferred at the Ministry of Social Security, National Solidarity, Senior Citizen Welfare and Reforms Institutions.