Friends of Cambodia
assisting Ruam Mit of Thailand in project implementation.
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chat board open I hope that you find this easier to use, so go and have
fun.
Nejat
held a Seminar in its treatment/rehabilitation centre in Kabul announcing
to the participants its strategy for intervention among drug users in
Afghanistan.
Nejat
with the assistance of the European Union and DOH-International has opened
a treatment and rehabilitation facility in Kabul.
Many of you will know that Doctor Sell was enormously influential and effective in the introduction of a harm reduction approach to drug use in the Asian region.
He has always been warmly and affectionately remembered at various FORUM meetings over the years and was the architect of that significant FORUM standard of service "Relapse is part of the process of recovery. Projects should aim to allow in out flexibility as part of this process"
Ulrich
Kohler will attend Helmut's funeral in Stuttgart and will pass on
your messages of condolence to his wife and family
In sadness and fond memory of Dr Helmut Sell.
At the opening ceremony of the 14th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm, Chiang Mai, 6-10 April 2003, the participants were confronted with a protest from the Thai Drug User’s Network about the present situation in Thailand. This is what the note stated that was passed out during the action:
The Thai Drug Users’
Network is a group of individuals who use or have used drugs. We have
come together to respond to the deplorable health and human rights situation
of drug users in our country, and in particular the current climate
of fear caused by the extra judicial killing of people allegedly involved
with drugs.