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Needle and syringe exchange programme

Her office is in the streets

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.

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.

You can’t treat what you can’t count: No one knows how many people inject drugs in east and southern Africa. (Yannis Behrakis, Reuters)
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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.

Clients at the TB HIV Care Rufus Laverlott Community Care Centre in Woodstock receive support to overcome heroin addiction. (David Harrison/M&G)

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

When people with diabetes inject insulin

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?

Song and dance: Supporters of presidential candidate Felix Tshisekedi welcome the announcement of the provisional results of the presidential election. (Caroline Thirion/AFP)
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‘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.

Smith also has a history of on-field flare-ups

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.

This programme is saving heroin users on the streets of Tshwane

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.