My Friend Was Abducted Into Forced Addiction Treatment in Mexico

For the activists of PANDA—whose mission is to advocate for people who use drugs in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean, engaging with many people in different parts of Mexico in the process—the kidnapping of one of our own, because that’s what it was, brought home one of the many ways the global war on people who use drugs violates our rights. Not that we needed any reminder.

By Matthew Bonn