Latest posts by Maryna Reshetnyak from March, 2011
Ukraine: Personal Story of a Methadone Therapy Patient
Journalist and blogger Larysa Goreslavets tells the story of Olga, a patient at a substitution therapy program in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchug and how she managed to turn her life around. Goreslavets has been updating these stories on the blog Zapitay.
Ukraine: Harm Reduction Activists Disturbed by Police Actions
In a recent interview, the Ukrainian interior minister called for increasing control over substitution therapy. According to the blog reports of various harm reduction activists, police started to pay special attention to the Methadone sites in various regions of the country. The bloggers report on their and others' experiences with the police attention.
