The newer Opioid Agonist Treatment with lower substitutive opiate doses is associated with better toxicology outcome than the older Harm Reduction Treatment. Bizzarri JV, Casetti V, Sanna L, Maremmani AG, Rovai L, Bacciardi S, Piacentino D, Conca A…

Retention in Georgia opioid substitution therapy program and associated factors Ruadze E, Todadze K Harm Reduction Journal 2016, 13 :35 (8 December 2016) https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-016-0124-z

Access to substance use treatment among young adults who use prescription opioids non-medically Liebling E, Yedinak J, Green T, Hadland S, Clark M, Marshall B Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2016, 11 :38 (29 November 2016) http…

At a busy restaurant in central Kabul this past July, Abdur Raheem Rejaey, a former injecting heroin user, met with colleagues to discuss launching a peer educator training program to protect the health of drug users (theinfluence.org, 08.12.2016)…

Double the number of opioid treatment programs—from 1,400 to 2,800—in the United States over the next three years: that was the main message from Mark Parrino, MPA, President of the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Depend…

 The Government of Ukraine has announced that in 2017 it will fully finance from its budget the national opioid substitution therapy programme for people who use drugs, a key population in Ukraine that is at higher risk of HIV infection. Approx…