National Drug Control Policy Development
Presented by;
Pol. Col. Zaw Lin Tun
Head of Department
Project Management Department
Drug Enforcement Division
Current Drug Control Strategy
The designation of narcotic drugs eradication as a national duty.
The development and upgrading of the standard of
living of the national races in the border areas and total eradication of poppy cultivation.
Inter-governmental Consultations and Consultations with Parliamentarians to develop the New Drug Policy
Establishment of Working Groups
Prevention Working Group
Treatment and Rehabilitation Working Group
Supply Reduction Working Group
Cross Cutting Issue: Human Rights and New
Challenges
Alternative development Working Group
6 Human rights & new challenges
Treatment & Rehab
Supply Reduction
Prevention
Alternative Development
National Drug Control Policy Working Groups Meeting
Demand Reduction and its related Measures
Supply reduction and its related Measures
Access to Controlled Drug
Human Rights and Women, Youth, Children and
Community
Drug and New Challenges
International Cooperation
Alternative Development
2016 UNGASS’s outcomes
Principle of Drug Policy
To build safe and healthy communities by minimizing drug‐related health, social and economic harm.
Outline a comprehensive approach to the issues of both illegal and legal drugs based upon long‐term and comprehensive planning.
Built upon realistic decision making which uses evidence to guide the response, and encourages and promotes regular evaluation of its effectiveness
Promote a whole‐of‐society approach starting with the individual and families, communities and community groups, civil society organizations and government at the local, regional and national level.
• Supply Reduction and Alternative Development • Treatment and Harm Reduction • International Cooperation • Research and Analysis (a strong evidence base) • Human rights were identified as a cross‐cutting issue.
Priority of the Policy Areas
Approaches to achieve the Priority of the
Policy
• Reduce the supply and agricultural based and chemical based production of drugs by reducing domestic growth and manufacturing of drugs; reducing levels of illicit poppy cultivation; and promoting alternative sustainable sources of livelihoods.
• Reduce the availability of drugs in the community by promoting community policing and increasing community involvement and participation.
• Reduce the availability of drugs by increasing the capacity of government in responding to precursors; strengthening border management mechanism capacity to reduce importation or trafficking of illicit drugs and precursor chemicals; and disrupting organised crime.
• Strengthening anti‐money laundering and anti‐ corruption measures that are drug related.
Supply Reduction and Alternative Development
• Manage the supply and licit importation of narcotic chemical precursors to prevent the diversion into illicit channels.
• Develop legal response mechanisms to drug production, supply and trafficking that are proportionate; strengthening the capacity of the law enforcement officers to prevent and respond to drug related crime. This includes processes to manage drug‐related seizures.
• Ensure farmer right to land, right to access to alternative development, strengthen people’s right to access to basic services ( Infrastructure, health, education and so on)
• Manage the drug and conflict and strengthen the cooperation mechanism on drug control and rules of law with ethnic armed groups.
Demand Reduction and Harm Reduction • Reduce the potential drug‐related risks to individuals and society
to promote a healthy lifestyle • Reduce the level of occasional drug use through preventive
interventions by educating against the use of illicit drugs; strengthening the capacity of stakeholders including community based organization to deliver preventive interventions and promoting an enabling environment for implementation activities
• Reduce the level of problem and intensive drug use by reducing limitations to people accessing and receiving treatment; increasing the availability of treatment options including mental and physical health
• Promote and expand comprehensive packages of harm reduction. • Reduce challenges facing drug users’ reintegration into society.
• Invest in structural reform to promote alternatives to imprisonment for drug offences and improved oversight of prevention activities
• Promote the accessibility of controlled drugs for medical treatment and scientific purpose
• Develop specialize and professional workforce • Ensure drug users’ right to access to basic and primary health
care services, right to choose a treatment option
Research and Anlysis ( A Strong Evidence
Base
• Understanding the situation • Strengthening capacity in reseach • Incorporate research finding into policy and practices • Develop standardized M&E system of drug control activities
International Cooperation
• Increase the effectiveness of border management • Increase the effectiveness of cross‐border and transnational
criminal justice • Seek and share information and best practices from/with
international partners • Seek support from international partners that is aligned to
this policy, including the contribution of financial, technical, diplomatic and knowledge resources
Cross Cutting: Human Rights • Promote non‐discriminatory access to justice, healthcare and
social services for people who use drugs. Promote a human rights‐based approach through awareness raising, education, and all other interventions (across the continuum of care and support)
• Promote policies and criminal justice sector responses to drug use that respect human rights, including proportionate legal response mechanisms
• Consider repeal the death sentence for drug related offence • Programmes and interventions should be gender sensitive and in
line with The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
• Capacity building and support for duty‐bearers • Ensure the tailoring of drug control intervention to vulnerable
population including disable, children, youth and women.
National Drug Control Policy in Myanmar
Supply Reduction and Alternative Development
• Reduction of cultivation, production, and trafficking of illicit drugs and drug related crimes
• Development of effective laws for prevention, suppression and investigation of drug related offences
• Combating money laundering and corruption that are related to drug offences
• Development and implementation of alternative development programmes in order to reduce the dependency on illicit opium cultivation and illicit drug activity, including through creation of opportunities for sustainable livelihoods, and development of infrastructure and human resources
Demand Reduction and Harm Reduction
• Development and implementation of interventions for prevention of illicit drug use among children, youth, women, vulnerable populations and general public
• Promotion of treatment for people who use drugs, and improving the quality of treatment services
• Implementation of rehabilitation and social reintegration interventions for people who use drugs
• Reduction of health and social adverse consequences and harms caused by use of drugs (reduction of drugs‐related health and social harms and consequences)
• Regulation of availability of controlled substances and drugs for medical treatment purposes in a proper, systematic and adequate manner
International Cooperation • Promotion of international cooperation in drug control in all countries, and responsibility for combating it is a shared duty for all countries of the world
Research and Analysis • Investment in research and analysis to gain a clear understanding of the drug problem
Compliance with Human Rights • Creation and promotion of opportunities for treatment, rehabilitation, access to justice and social services for children, disabled people, women and other vulnerable populations
Strategic Plan • Designing a five‐year strategic plan to increase the flexibility of
the approach, and the likelihood it will be achieved. • This strategic plan will be formulated from the agreed policy
priorities, and should draw a connection to other relevant policies and plans (health, social welfare, economic development), and regional and international policies and plans (Mekong MOU, ASEAN, UNGASS).
• Based on the strategic plan, two and half years action plan will be developed by local governments upon their priorities and immediate needs.