Women who use drugs in Georgia face a desperate struggle not only with their drug problems, but with accessing help in the face of institutionalised and systematic gender discrimination.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry launched an awareness campaign on the spread of the viral hepatitis, aimed at informing citizens about the disease’s symptoms and consequences.
The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights found that the closure of the largest needle and syringe program in Budapest violated the right to health and the mayor is now accusing the ombudsman of “being controlled by the drug lobby”.
Agios Stefanos prison in Patras is the proud new home of the country's very first "prison" MMT programme, where inmates struggling with addiction can now be provided with proper treatment while incarcerated.
The new regulations will allow family doctors to write the medical cannabis prescriptions under two conditions: when it is an extension of an existing treatment, and only keeping to an existing dosage.
Recent statistics from the National Administration of Penitentiaries show the accelerated rise in the HIV prevalence in prisoners, in particular among people who use drugs.
