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COSUP's interventions are all part of a harm reduction approach to substance use
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Heroin withdrawals: Could this drug be the answer?

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Programmes letting people swap illegal highs for medications are popping up all over the country. Here’s how they work.
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Southern Africa’s missing drug users: We can’t treat what we don’t count

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No one really knows how many people inject drugs in east and southern Africa and that's a bigger problem than you think.
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Safe spaces increase the chances of recovery

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Being an addict on the street is hard, the two men say. But trying to break the habit is the hardest
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Watch this man’s amazing transformation after he kicked heroin with the help of this

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When people with diabetes inject insulin, we don't see that as an addiction. So why is opioid substitution therapy considered one?
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‘I thought drug users just made bad choices. Then this happened’

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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.
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Myths and methadone: Will Egypt’s laws bend to the rising tide of drug abuse?

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The real revolution is yet to come when it relates to the country’s opioid epidemic.
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Chasing the dragon, stalking a virus: Life, heroin and Tshwane’s needle exchange

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