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Description: "DARE Network is a community-based grassroots organization providing culturally appropriate treatment and prevention programs to reduce substance abuse and associated societal problems within the communities of the refugee and displaced ethnic people from Burma, along the Thai-Burmese border."
Source/publisher: DARE Network
Date of entry/update: 2016-01-15
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Category: Substance abuse
Language: English
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Description: "Eight Myanmar children suffering from congenital heart disease will receive free treatment in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province. They have arrived at Fuwai Yunnan Cardiovascular Hospital (FYCH) thanks to a rescue action plan under the Belt and Road Initiative. The action plan was launched by the China Charity Federation, Yunnan Charity Federation and the FYCH in 2017 and has so far treated 27 Myanmar children. A total of 15 patients will be treated free of charge this time, and seven of them will come to China for treatment later. "The age of the eight patients ranges from 13 months to 12 years old," said Myint Myint Khine, senior medical superintendent of Yankin Children Hospital in Myanmar. There is a long wait in hospitals for patients with heart disease in Myanmar, and they are happy to have the chance of treatment in China, she added. "We can't afford the high cost of treatment. We are very grateful to China for providing us free treatment," said Aye Myat Thuzar, a patient's mother..."
Source/publisher: "Xinhua" (China)
2019-12-06
Date of entry/update: 2019-12-06
Grouping: Individual Documents
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Description: TABLE OF CONTENTS: NCD DEFINITION and RISK FACTORS... STROKE... ASTHMA vs. COPD... DIABETES MELLITUS... EPIGASTRIC PAIN... CANCER... ALCOHOL USE DISORDER
Source/publisher: Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI)
2010-09-00
Date of entry/update: 2011-01-13
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese, English
Format : pdf
Size: 2.08 MB
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Description: Myanmar is one of the few countries in East Asia that has reported a decrease in the overall prevalence of HIV in recent years. Estimates indicate that HIV prevalence peaked at about 0.9% (15-49%). By 2007, the estimated prevalence was 0.7% (range: 0.4-1.1%)..... Myanmar remains the second largest opium poppy growing country after Afghanistan, contributing 20% of opium poppy cultivation in major cultivating countries in 2008.3 Heroin use has become widespread and is the primary drug of choice among people who inject drugs. While the use of heroin and opium has been observed to be declining in recent years, the use of methamphetamine has been increasing since 2003. Injecting of amphetamine type stimulants has also been reported to occur, as well as injecting of a mixture of opiates and pharmaceutical drugs.
Source/publisher: UNAIDS, UNODC
2010-02-04
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-05
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Chapter Overview: Farmers are turning to illegal drug cultivation as a way to escape extreme poverty thrust upon them by the relentless civil war. As the situation in Karenni State worsens, more and more farmers will turn to poppy cultivation and the more secure future it promises. Whilst the income that farmers can earn from drugs is significantly higher than from other crops, they remain vulnerable to economic hardships, exploitation and abuses from the Burmese military regime and non-state actors. Furthermore, the increased drug production has led to increased drug abuse amongst the Karenni people, in two districts 35 per cent of males are using opium. This adds pressure to an already inadequate health system while eroding the fragile social fabric of the Karenni people. In this chapter: * Types of drugs produced in Karenni State * Why villagers are producing drugs * Eradication Programmes * Social Problems
Source/publisher: Burma Issue
2008-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Substance abuse
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 666.37 KB
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Description: "Substance abuse refers to the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive substances, including alcohol and illicit drugs. It can also be simply defined as a pattern of harmful use of any substance for mood-altering purposes. Generally, when most people talk about substance abuse, they are referring to the use of illegal drugs. But illegal drugs are not the only substances that can be abused. Alcohol, prescribed medications, inhalants and even coffee and cigarettes, can be used to harmful excess. Substance abuse can lead to dependence syndrome - a cluster of behavioural, cognitive, and physiological phenomena that develop after repeated use including a strong desire to take the drug, persisting in its use despite harmful consequences, increased tolerance, and a physical withdrawal state. In this guidebook, based upon the situation in our community, we present the most common substances that are often abused, how they are used, their street names, and their intoxicating and health effects.".....CONTENTS:- Part I: Alcohol... Amphetamine, Yaba, Ecstasy... Benzodiazepines... Betel Nut and Betal Leaf (Kwan-ya)... Cannabis... Cocaine - (Crack)... Codeine... Heroin... Volatile Substance or Inhalants ... Methadone... Opium... Tobacco..... PART II:- General Views of Substance Abuse... Chronic Effects of Alcoholism... Management in Substance Abuse Overdose... Psycho-Counselling for Substance Abuse.
Source/publisher: Aide Médicale Internationale, UNHCR
2009-09-00
Date of entry/update: 2009-09-09
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English, Burmese
Format : pdf pdf
Size: 14.52 MB 12.65 MB
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Description: "?Poisoned Flowers: The Impacts of Spiraling Drug Addiction on Palaung Women in Burma?, based on interviews with eighty-eight wives and mothers of drug addicts, shows how women in Palaung areas have become increasingly vulnerable due to the rising addiction rates. Already living in dire poverty, with little access to education or health care, wives of addicts must struggle single-handedly to support as many as ten children. Addicted husbands not only stop providing for their families, but also sell off property and possessions, commit theft, and subject their wives and children to repeated verbal and physical abuse. The report details cases of women losing eight out of eleven children to disease and of daughters being trafficked by their addicted father. The increased addiction rates have resulted from the regime allowing drug lords to expand production into Palaung areas in recent years, in exchange for policing against resistance activity and sharing drug profits. The collapse of markets for tea and other crops has driven more and more farmers to turn to opium growing or to work as labourers in opium fields, where wages are frequently paid in opium. The report throws into question claims by the regime and the UNODC of a dramatic reduction of opium production in Burma during the past decade, and calls on donor countries and UN agencies supporting drug eradication programs in Burma to push for genuine political reform..."
Source/publisher: Palaung Women?s Organization
2006-06-09
Date of entry/update: 2006-06-08
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 631.56 KB
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