Wednesday, February 17, 2010

UN to scale up drug services

Irwin Loy and Chhay Channyda

Phnom Penh Post
UN agencies plan to scale up investments in drug-treatment services in an effort to boost alternatives to the controversial “boot camps” that now serve as drug rehabilitation centres for hundreds of Cambodians each year, officials said Tuesday.

The plan comes in the wake of a scathing Human Rights Watch report that accused 11 government-run facilities of subjecting drug users to violence and forced confinement while delivering ineffective treatment.

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