Myanmar: Drug Control Efforts Go Local in Myanmar’s Kachin State

Aug 14, 2014 | IRIN
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Myanmar's northern Kachin State, renowned for its heroin production, is changing tack in its efforts to curb rampant drug use and cultivation: In addition to crop-substitution programmes, community-led campaigns aim to change minds and steer people towards treatment.

“The drug problem here is so big that we can’t rely only on the authorities to solve it. So communities have risen up to contain it,” Tang Gun, secretary of the Kachin National Anti-Drug Committee, told IRIN.