Governments in Southeast Asia Detain Thousands in Abusive Drug Detention Centers
Press Release
May 7, 2010
A new OSI report documents the arbitrary detention of thousands of drug users, mostly young people, in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. While the detention is supposedly for treatment, people in the centers do not receive medical care and are subjected to routine physical and sexual abuse.

Navigating a Rotten Compromise
Daniel Wolfe
April 12, 2010
 BLOG  
U.S. funds are being used to support compulsory "rehabilitation" centers in Cambodia, China, and Vietnam where people who use drugs are routinely beaten, raped, and otherwise abused.

Stop Torture in Health Care
Daniel Wolfe
January 26, 2010
 BLOG  
Throughout Southeast Asia, men and women who are caught using drugs are locked away in so-called rehabilitation centers where they are routinely tortured.

A Light in the Dark: Health Services for Drug Users in St. Petersburg
August 2008
 VIDEO  
This multimedia piece documents the work of an OSI grantee fighting to save the lives of injecting drug users.

Why Overdose Matters for HIV
July 2010
This Open Society Foundations document presents arguments that organizations can make to AIDS funders to show that overdose prevention and response matter for HIV programming.

Detention as Treatment
May 2010
This Open Society Institute report documents the arbitrary detention of thousands of drug users, mostly young people, in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand.

Lowering the Threshold
March 2010
This OSI report documents methadone and buprenorphine programs that seek, in the spirit of harm reduction, to meet patients “where they’re at” and minimize bureaucratic requirements.

Human Rights and Drug Policy
March 2010
The International Harm Reduction Association, Human Rights Watch, and OSI created a series of fact sheets on the human rights implications of anti-drug policies and practices, including compulsory drug treatment, detention, crop eradication, and controlled essential medicines.