The Lao PDR - The Compulsory Drug Detention Centres (CDDCs) - 4/4 What is being done to change cour
On October 2012, a workshop on drug policy sponsored by UNODC, the U.N. Economic Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and UNAIDS,...
The Lao PDR - The Compulsory Drug Detention Centres (CDDCs) - 3/4 UNODC involvement
Involvement of foreign donors and UNODC There is a commonly made misinterpretation of the U.N. system which often leads public perception...
The Lao PDR - The Compulsory Drug Detention Centres (CDDCs) - 2/4 "In the name of treatment&qu
How do the centers work ? Technically the centers in Lao PDR provinces are the property of the governors and of their administration,...
The Lao PDR - The Compulsory Drug Detention Centres (CDDCs) - 1/4 Introduction
Briefly after sizing power, towards the end of the year 1975, “the communist authorities infamously rounded up hundreds of drug addicts,...
The Lao PDR - What does being "drug free" mean?
Interviewed by several researchers, most of the Lao PDR law enforcement officers present at a 2012 workshop “did not understand the...