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Summary Drug addiction is a complex and multidimensional social problem. Drug-addicted families never fully recover from the anxiety and suffering their experience. In any country, drug abuse, illegal trafficking and associated criminal...

Ahsania Mission Youth Forum for Health and Wellbeing have called for the swift passage of proposed amendments to the Tobacco Control Law, including a complete ban on e-cigarettes or vaping. This demand was raised during a youth gathering...

A seminar was organized on the occasion of World AIDS Day, focusing on the theme of the rights of key populations in Bangladesh. The event took place on Saturday, November 30, at 11 AM in the auditorium of Dhaka Ahsania Mission, under the...

Ahsania Mission Female Drug Treatment Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary a significant achievement for women with substance use disorders The number of female substance users has been increasing alarmingly, but they are lagging...

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, MP (on Saturday 8 July) inaugurated the Ahsania Hena Ahmed Monojotno Kendra aiming to provide international standard specialized treatment services for mental disorders and substance use disorders patients at...

To build an affluent society, the youth must be involved in prevention of substance - Director General, Department of Narcotics Control Youth is the time for our brain to grow and develop. Using of substances at a young age affect brain...

Social stigma is the main obstacle for female substance users’ treatment. Social stigma is the reason why females who use substances are unwilling to seek treatment. The rate of substance abuse among the female is frightfully increasing...

Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) celebrates Recovery Month

Director General of Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) Mr Abdul Wahab Bhuya has said that family and society's negative attitude towards substance users hinders the process of treatment and rehabilitation. He said this while addressing...

Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) and Bangladesh Prison Directorate jointly organized a four-day long ToT on mental health for prison officials from 22-25 August 2022, in the meeting room of Dhaka Central Jail. A total of 21 participants...