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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT, MARCH 1996
United States Department of State
Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
International Demand Reduction
Almost all of the major illicit drug producing and transit countries
continue to have significant drug abuse problems, which not only degrade
the political, social and economic stability of a nation, but offer new
markets to the drug trade. The USG has been working with many of these
countries to reduce demand and prevent drug abuse.
In 1995, the USG addressed the question of international demand
reduction through continuing bilateral and multilateral efforts.
Bilaterally, INL continued to fund programs on demand reduction training
(education, prevention, treatment, research) and public awareness
primarily in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Increased assistance was provided to Southwest Asia, South Africa, and
the Newly Independent States. It conducted bilateral programs in 1995
with Brazil, China, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras,
India, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Thailand and Venezuela,
as well as with less significant drug producing and transit countries.
Multilaterally, the USG continued to work closely with the European
Union, the UNDCP, UNICEF, the IADB, OAS-CICAD, the Colombo Plan, and the
Commonwealth Secretariat on such projects as enhancing or creating
regional demand reduction training centers in for Eastern Europe and
Latin America, drug prevention and intervention services for "street
children" in Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Venezuela;
and developing coalitions of demand reduction NGOs based on the Center
for Substance Abuse Prevention's community partnership model for drug
prevention.
Significant accomplishments resulting from INL-funded demand reduction
training and collaborative initiatives with other donors include the
following:
- Thailand continues to staff and service its $14 million,
residential drug treatment complex and training center based on a model
developed by Daytop International.
- With the assistance of Daytop training, Thailand also
developed a community-based demand reduction program servicing the
entire Yala province; the Thai Ministry of Justice established
additional rehabilitation centers, and the Thai Corrections Department
introduced the therapeutic community model of treatment in 54 prisons.
- Colombia continued to expand its national coalitions of
treatment and prevention programs, in addition to beginning preparations
for a second national-level survey on drug consumption.
- The Colombian Government and UNDCP developed a $4 million
project on substance abuse treatment in prison settings, utilizing
concepts learned in Daytop training.
- Venezuela developed a local media partnership modeled after
the Partnership for a Drug Free America; raising over $5 million in
private donations.
- Brazil initiated plans for a similar media partnership with
atarget of $15-18 million per year in private sector donations.
- Malaysia introduced concepts learned in Daytop training into
42 aftercare centers and will build another 40 throughout the country
with the target to have an aftercare center for each district.
- China provided $3.0 million towards the development of an
Institute on Drug Abuse in Yunnan Province that will provide treatment,
prevention, and drug research services; this project resulted from
Daytop training.
- Turkey conducted its first national survey on drug
consumption using technical assistance from NIDA and INL.
- Following INL/OAS-CICAD regional training in Barbados,
Caribbean public and private sector organizations formed a regional
association of drug counselors.
- Hungary implemented a substance abuse curriculum and
prevention program in its schools systems.
- Hungary and Brazil developed prevention programs based on the
DARE model.
- Japan continued to co-fund demand reduction projects with INL
in South Africa (prevention and treatment), Latin America (Andean street
kids initiative developed by INL and OAS-CICAD), and South Asia
(matching contributions to the Colombo Plans drug assistance program.
- The IADB continues to provide substantial funding to the
network of street kids organizations in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil,
originally developed with INL and EU funding.
- The INL/UNDCP-funded, sub-regional training center in Brazil
for street kids staff and health care workers officially opened in 1995
- The INL/UNDCP-funded regional training center for Eastern
Europe that is based in Sicily provided expanded training services in
1995.
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