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COSUP’s interventions are all part of a harm reduction approach to substance use
Heroin withdrawals: Could this drug be the answer?
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
No one really knows how many people inject drugs in east and southern Africa and that’s a bigger problem than you think.
Safe spaces increase the chances of recovery
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
When people with diabetes inject insulin, we don’t see that as an addiction. So why is opioid substitution therapy considered one?
‘I thought drug users just made bad choices. Then this happened’
Until two years ago, it was Sibonelo Gumede’s job to help developers get rid of people who used drugs in neighbourhoods. Then his life changed.
Myths and methadone: Will Egypt’s laws bend to the rising tide of drug abuse?
The real revolution is yet to come when it relates to the country’s opioid epidemic.
Chasing the dragon, stalking a virus: Life, heroin and Tshwane’s needle exchange
This programme is saving heroin users on the streets of Tshwane, one clean needle at a time.