A chance at life: A recovering drug addict from Myanmar receiving treatment during a rehabilitation programme at an undisclosed location in Mae Sot along the Thai-Myanmar border. — AFP
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 thousands who have become addicted to methamphetamine and other synthetic drugs that have flooded camps housing those forced to flee their homes by Myanmar’s civil war.
