Ukraine's opiate users: Russian invasion has severely disrupted access to drug-treatment services

By Ian Hamilton, Associate Professor of Addiction, University of York
Julia Buxton, Professor, Criminology, University of Manchester

About 317,000 Ukrainians inject drugs like heroin regularly. As of January, 14,868 of them were receiving substitute opiates such as methadone and buprenorphine.

Ukraine has been funding these treatment services since 2017. In that year, it also rapidly expanded its services for people in need of sterile syringes, condoms and peer support or counselling…

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