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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,...

Interviewed by several researchers, most of the Lao PDR law enforcement officers present at a 2012 workshop “did not understand the...

The history of AD (seen as economic development tool in the service of the ‘fight against drugs’) shows that this approach has rarely...

Current Programs In October 2015, at the time of the author internship, there were no AD projects currently undertaken by the UNODC Lao...

UNODC Lao PDR Country Office Programs At the 2015 CND 58th session, UNODC reported on the “implementation of alternative development...

Why do farmers grow illicit crops? Traditionally, opium was a substance of choice, firmly integrated into the society of the hills and...

The UNODC Country Office in Lao PDR was created in 1989, under the auspice of UNDCP. The agency is engaged there with several...

For anthropologist David Graeber (2015a), we are now in an “age of total bureaucratisation.” We have entered a phase where public and...

In the essence of its creation by the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the functions of the INCB “were intended to be the...

Because UNODC received “its mandate to address the global drug problem from the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) and three major...