Stories about Drop-In Center from October, 2011

Ukraine: A Healthy Debate in the Comments Section

  26 October 2011

A popular Ukrainian internet website published an article that was critical of opioid replacement therapy programs. The online discussion that took place in the comments section shows that there is a healthy debate about the role of this programs in society. Some bloggers also took the discussion over to their sites.

Ukraine: ASTAU Adds Blogging Workshop for Members

  16 October 2011

The Association of Substitution Treatment Advocates of Ukraine (ASTAU) started to offer blogging workshops to its member in 2011. In an email interview, Olga Beliayeva, the head of the Association, talks about how these workshops have helped its members express themselves and put a personal face to the mission of the ASTAU.