Drugs in Cambodia
Drug addiction is a curse. It wrecks hopes, dreams and futures. It cuts talented lives short and tears families apart, all the while fuelling crime and putting money into the pockets of criminals.
The situation in Cambodia is worrying, with
methamphetamine the drug of choice for many users, who take it as a means to escape reality, to help them keep working for longer, or just to experience an extreme high.
As long as drugs exist, people will take them. But I think that those dabbling with highly addictive drugs in Cambodia are playing a particularly dangerous game. The Kingdom has little to no safety net to support addicts, though a number of NGOs are doing their best to help vulnerable users and the UN Office on Drugs
and Crime is also tackling the problem with
programmes in Northwestern Cambodia.
