Drug Law Reform in East and Southeast Asia

Fifa Rahman is policy manager at the Malaysian AIDS Council.Nick Crofts is director of the Centre for Law Enforcement and Public Health.

This bookgathers perspectives from across Asia into one place, allowing for effective advocacy. It offers a single source of material that can be used by health professionals in East and Southeast Asia on drug policy and explains recent changes towards harm reduction and treatment modalities to the general public in East and Southeast Asia.

ForewordIntroductionChapter 3: Historical Perspectives of Drug Use in AsiaChapter 4: Harm Reduction is Good Public HealthChapter 5: Human Rights and Drug PolicyChapter 6: Drug Users and ImprisonmentChapter 7: Law Enforcement and Drug Policy in Southeast AsiaChapter 8: Effective Development and Effective Drug Control are Interdependent: the example of Southeast AsiaChapter 9: Illicit drug policy in Southeast Asia - The Users' PerspectiveChapter 10: Harm Reduction: The Islamic PerspectiveChapter 11: HIV and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection among People who Inject Drugs in East and Southeast AsiaChapter 12: Unpacking Compulsory 'Rehabilitation' in Asia: Problems and Possible SolutionsChapter 13: Responding to ATS use in East and Southeast AsiaChapter 14: Case Study No. 1: Harm Reduction and Drug Policy in Thailand - One Step Forward, Two Steps BackChapter 15: Case Study No. 2: Drug Policy in TaiwanChapter 16: Case Study No. 3: Emerging from a Black Box: Drug Policymaking in VietnamChapter 17: Case Study No. 4: Drug Policy in ChinaChapter 18: Case Study No. 5: Compulsory Drug Rehabilitation in ChinaChapter 19: Alternatives to Criminal Justice: Drug Courts, Drug Diversion, and DecriminalisationChapter 20: Capital Punishment for Drug OffencesChapter 21: Drug Treatment Across AsiaChapter 22: The Way Forward