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Drug addiction is a complex and multidimensional social problem. Drug-addicted families never fully recover from the anxiety and...

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...

As part of Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) capacity building initiatives with prison staff for the better management of drug dependent prisoners, a four-day long Training of Trainers (ToT) on Drug Treatment and Management Training for prison staff was held on 25 July 2022.

Mr. Md. Azizul Islam, Director General (Additional Charge), Additional Secretary, Department of Narcotics Control has said, it would not be possible to achieve SDG if we fail to control substance use and has requested everyone to step ahead...

Presented as part of the Uniting the global community to face the challenge of addiction event, online, on 16th May, 2022

To improve the quality of drug treatment and rehabilitation services, for the third time, the Government of Bangladesh has provided grants to private drug treatment and rehabilitation centers across the country.

Moreover, the government...

Proper guidelines for professionals are essential in providing quality services. With this in mind, Dhaka Ahsania Mission Health Sector organized a day-long consultation workshop on June 2, 2022, under the JPRPHRPC project supported by GIZ...

Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) drug treatment centers celebrate Recovery Get-Together every year to support recoveries and help integration back into society. This year DAM arranged a “Recovery Get together” program on March 26, 2022, at Ahsania Mission Drug Treatment Center, Gazipur.

Young children are now living in drug-life circumstances and are actively engaged in drug-using behavior. Recent data show that incidence and prevalence rates of substance use and substance use disorders among young children are increasing...

Drug use has been identified as one of the ominous problems that the society faces now-a-days. Every drug dependent person has different and complex difficulties to go through in the process of recovering from such harmful behavior. Person...

Drug abuse is a tremendous menace in society with grave biological, social, financial, psychological, and security effects on the individuals, families, and the community. In the context of our country, the number of children with drug...

Reflecting the theme - “I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women's Rights”, Ahsania Mission Female Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center organized a human chain formation followed by a discussion meeting in collaboration with Dhaka...