Harm reduction, not regulations will help South African smokers to quit
No one really knows how many people inject drugs in east and southern Africa and that’s a bigger problem than you think.
If you think shutting down needle exchange programmes will keep your city free of contaminated needles, think again.
The project’s closure six months ago forced some injecting drug users to share needles and risk infections such as HIV and Hepatitis C.
When people with diabetes inject insulin, we don’t see that as an addiction. So why is opioid substitution therapy considered one?
Newer, lifesaving drugs for South Africa’s "silent" killer aren’t yet available in the country.
Find out how drug users banded together to use a simple injection to save thousands of lives.
Misconceptions about HIV infection and injection drug use could shut down the only project working to curb it.
The real revolution is yet to come when it relates to the country’s opioid epidemic.
This programme is saving heroin users on the streets of Tshwane, one clean needle at a time.
It’s time that evidence, not stigma, drive SA’s drug policies.
Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more, argue experts.
Outreach workers say the practice making headlines isn’t as widespread as it’s been made out to be as they rush to prevent more from trying it.
Pictures of drug users injecting themselves with the blood of others have gone viral in SA.
The health department calls arrests ‘unfortunate’ after senior officials spend night trying to get workers out of cells.
Those who ‘shoot up’ have a higher risk of getting infected, but some progressive nations are encouraging drug users to adopt safer habits.
Introduce harm-reduction and HIV programmes – especially for heroin users – before it’s too late.