Arguments against the compulsory treatment of opioid dependence

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Arguments against the compulsory treatment of opioid dependence

3 April 2013

By Ruth Birgin on behalf of the Asian Network of People Who Use Drugs (ANPUD)

The Asian Network of People Who Use Drugs finds a recent attempt to advocate for compulsory “rehabilitation” centres founded on faulty arguments and dubious research that, if heeded, poses a direct threat to the human rights of people who use drugs and the dignity of society at large.

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