Propuestas para abordar los problemas de drogas en Myanmar
El TNI propone cinco intervenciones estratégicas que podrían suponer un cambio positivo para los problemas de drogas en Myanmar. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.
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Time has come to embrace a different approach and adopt policies that are based on public health, community safety, human rights and development. Only such policies will deliver on the promise to improve people’s lives; only such policies will truly allow Myanmar to reduce the harm caused by problematic drug use, trafficking and production. This policy briefing was drafted by a group of local and international organisations with indepth knowledge and extensive experience of drug-related issues in Myanmar. It is structured around a set of five strategic interventions, each of which comes with concrete recommendations that are adapted to the Myanmar context. It contains reliable, up-to-date information and examples of evidence-based practices from Myanmar and around the world.
We identify the following 5 key strategic interventions.
- Increase access to health, harm reduction and voluntary drug treatment for people using drugs
- End the criminalisation of drug users and small-scale farmers
- Refocus law enforcement efforts on violent organised crime and large-scale drug production and trafficking
- Promote development projects in opium growing areas
- Include civil society and affected communities in policy reform
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