PARAMARIBO, Suriname — The government of Suriname is exploring the creation of a drug treatment court for drug-dependent offenders, with support from the Court and Prosecutor’s Office of Ghent, Belgium and the University of Ghent.
This is part of an ongoing program called EU-LAC Drug Treatment City Partnerships to Improve Drug Treatment, financed by the European Union, and executed by the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), Secretariat for Multidimensional Security of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Published in Caribbean Net News, October 30, 2009
