Drug Treatment in Southeast Asia: A Report on Promising Practices in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand

The State Department's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) ensures that foreign countries receive assistance from the United States Government to address escalating drug use and help improve local treatment systems. Under this initiative, the State Department asked evaluators from Danya International, Inc., to conduct site visits in treatment programs on several continents to identify "promising practices." Promising practices are treatment approaches that, when effectively carried out, enhance the likelihood of program success. These practices have been identified, and Danya, working in collaboration with the State Department, is charged with "getting the word out" so that these successes can be replicated by treatment programs across the country and possibly in other Nations. In a series of site visits to drug treatment programs in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, the Danya evaluation team collected many types of data; analyzed client records on drug use and treatment compliance; and conducted extensive interviews with staff, volunteers, clients, family members, and other community stakeholders. Key study results from the work accomplished to date in Southeast Asia are presented in this report.

Promising Practices in Drug Treatment:
Findings from Southeast Asia (Size: 1,470 kb)

This document requires Acrobat Reader. If you don't have Acrobat Reader click icon below: