Eight of the UK’s leading harm reduction and drug treatment organisations analyse whether the focus on harm reduction has improved under the new strategy
The Upper House has approved a bill to amend the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1993 that would effectively decriminalise drug use in Myanmar.
The centre has an unusual neighbour, a kindergarten, that shares the building with a program that provides clean needles and syringes for injecting drug users.
Facing significant challenges related to the illicit trade, the country’s authorities seem growingly weary of overly-punitive approaches to drug control.