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Ukraine: Advice for Friends and Families of Addicts
Ukrainian organizations working in the field of harm reduction often use their web resources to provide ongoing assistance to their clients and their families. The psychologists and social workers, who...
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Ukraine: Substitution Therapy Programs at Home and Abroad
Activist Pavel Kutsev from the Rising Voices grantee project the Drop-In Center has been active in raising awareness about substitution therapy programs in his country of Ukraine. In addition, he has...
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How does substitution therapy change the life of people living with drug addiction? Bloggers from the Association of Substitution Treatment Advocates of Ukraine (ASTAU) [ru] use their blogs to share...
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Ukraine: Bloggers React to the Detention of Activist
It the middle of August, the Ukrainian harm reduction community was very disturbed with the detention of Russian activist Irina Teplinskaya. Russian web-media reported [ru] that Irina was detained by...
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Ukraine: ASTAU Adds Blogging Workshop for Members
The Association of the Substitution Treatment Advocates of Ukraine (ASTAU) was created in 2009 and currently unites harm reduction activists from almost all the regions of Ukraine. The Rising Voices...
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Ukraine: A Healthy Debate in the Comments Section
Recently, a popular Ukrainian internet website Ukrayinska Pravda [ru] published a lengthy article criticising opioid replacement therapy (ORT) programs. The article led to a huge discussion among...
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Ukraine: Finding Comfort and Advice in a Forum
Upon first glance, the discussion board of the web-site Motilek.com.ua run by Ukrainian non-profit organization and Rising Voices grantee the Drop-in Center looks exactly like any other discussion...
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Ukraine: Harm Reduction Activists Report Small Accomplishments
The work of the activists of the Association of Substitution Therapy Treatment of Ukraine is focused on making the lives of the patients of opiate replacement therapy more comfortable, helping them to...
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Ukraine: A Sad Story from The Life of the Substitution Therapy Patient
Recently two Ukrainian bloggers focused on harm reduction issues. Livejournal users depo3p and zpt_users reposted a story of a patient of the opiate replacement therapy (ORT) from the town of Shostka....
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Russia: Harm Reduction Web-site Blocked by the Government
At the beginning of February Russian Government blocked a web-site rylkov-fond.ru which belongs to the Moscow nonprofit organization Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Promotion of Health Care and Social...
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