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The case for decriminalising personal drug use

Health Lester Kiewit - 3 Oct 2020

Deputy Social Development Minister Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu tells the UN that the war on drugs has failed and is suggesting other options to tackle addiction

Streetlife over safety in shelters

Article Paddy Harper - 16 Apr 2020

In eThekwini a successful scheme is helping homeless people, but some say the lack of drugs to feed their addictions means it is better to stay away

US-China fentanyl case just ‘the tip of the iceberg’

Article Laurent Thomet - 10 Nov 2019

Here is a look at the opioid crisis and the tensions it has caused between China and the United States

Prescription drug poses new threat to youths

Article Mark Hunter - 28 Aug 2019

Learners turn to anti-anxiety medication to manage stress but punishment remains the state’s primary intervention

Slice of life: ‘Cannabis calm saved me’

Article Jacques Coetzee 1 - 16 Aug 2019

Today, I’m a weed activist. I’ve seen the injustice of really, really good people getting fucked by really bad laws

Heroin withdrawals: Could this drug be the answer?

Videos Staff Reporter - 23 Apr 2019

Programmes letting people swap illegal highs for medications are popping up all over the country. Here’s how they work.

Southern Africa’s missing drug users: We can’t treat what we don’t count

Article Catherine Sozi - 1 Mar 2019

No one really knows how many people inject drugs in east and southern Africa and that's a bigger problem than you think.

[WATCH] Busted: Three myths about drug addiction

Videos Joan Van Dyk - 18 Feb 2019

If you think shutting down needle exchange programmes will keep your city free of contaminated needles, think again.

Safe spaces increase the chances of recovery

Article Lester Kiewit - 18 Jan 2019

Being an addict on the street is hard, the two men say. But trying to break the habit is the hardest

Watch this man’s amazing transformation after he kicked heroin with the help of this

Videos Staff Reporter - 14 Sep 2018

When people with diabetes inject insulin, we don't see that as an addiction. So why is opioid substitution therapy considered one?

Saved: How drug users gained the power to reverse overdoses

Article Bhekisisa Team - 18 Jun 2018

Find out how drug users banded together to use a simple injection to save thousands of lives.

Chasing the dragon, stalking a virus: Life, heroin and Tshwane’s needle exchange

Videos Staff Reporter - 3 Dec 2017

This programme is saving heroin users on the streets of Tshwane, one clean needle at a time.

New Gauteng programme allows drug users to swap illegal highs for safer alternatives

Article Nelisiwe Msomi - 30 May 2017

The Tshwane initiative could help reduce drug use, drug-related crime and new HIV infections.

Inside ‘bluetoothing’s’ fake high

Videos Nelisiwe Msomi - 12 Mar 2017

Did you know that 'bluetoothing' puts you at risk of contracting multiple bloodborne diseases and it doesn't even get you high?

‘Bluetoothing’: Is this drug fad really happening in South Africa?

Videos Staff Reporter - 14 Feb 2017

Pictures of drug users injecting themselves with the blood of others have gone viral in SA.

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