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Here’s how to make drug addiction a health issue, not a criminal one
Experts say South Africa’s contradictory approach to drugs — treating addiction as both a disease and a crime — is fuelling a worsening crisis in places like Westbury, where…
The tobacco bill violates human rights
Harm reduction, not regulations will help South African smokers to quit
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.
[WATCH] Busted: Three myths about drug addiction
If you think shutting down needle exchange programmes will keep your city free of contaminated needles, think again.
Durban delays re-opening of city’s only needle exchange programme
The project’s closure six months ago forced some injecting drug users to share needles and risk infections such as HIV and Hepatitis C.
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?
SA needs R4-billion to fight this killer virus you may never have heard of
Newer, lifesaving drugs for South Africa’s "silent" killer aren’t yet available in the country.
Saved: How drug users gained the power to reverse overdoses
Find out how drug users banded together to use a simple injection to save thousands of lives.
Freak waves and HIV in Durban. What’s the link?
Misconceptions about HIV infection and injection drug use could shut down the only project working to curb it.
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.
These countries medically prescribe heroin, should SA follow suit?
It’s time that evidence, not stigma, drive SA’s drug policies.
It’s time to end SA’s war on drugs
Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more, argue experts.
‘Bluetoothing’: The drug myth that fooled a nation?
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.
‘Bluetoothing’: Is this drug fad really happening in South Africa?
Pictures of drug users injecting themselves with the blood of others have gone viral in SA.