Opioid Substitution Therapy

While the restriction of movement curtailed the health services for people who use drugs in some parts of the world, it propelled other countries into finding innovative ways to…

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

COSUP’s interventions are all part of a harm reduction approach to substance use

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

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

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

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

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.

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.