Myanmar's lost generation battles trauma, drug addiction at jungle rehabilitation centre

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MAE SOT, Thailand: In a drug treatment centre in a wooden stilt house deep in the Thai jungle, young refugees from Myanmar wait patiently for the prick of an acupuncture needle. They are among the ...

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Drugs are easy to find in the camps,\" the 34-year-old told AFP at the camp in a remote forest location in Thailand's western province of Tak.\nThe Drug and Alcohol Recovery and Education (DARE) rehabilitation centre, funded by the UN and other aid agencies, uses acupuncture as part of its regimen, along with massages to reduce drug cravings and yoga to help manage intense withdrawal pains.\nThe group operates in five refugee camps, as well as more than 40 villages in Myanmar's Karen state, and claims a 60 per cent success rate for its 90-day treatment programme.\nIt did not allow AFP to speak to any of its patients or former cases, saying doing so would violate its treatment principles.\n\n\n\n\n\n      Recovering drug addict from Myanmar getting a therapeutic massage during a rehabilitation program run by the non-governmental organisation DARE Network (Drug and Alcohol Recovery and Education) at an undisclosed location in Mae Sot along the Thai-Myanmar border on Sep 10, 2024. 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