Liquid methadone is provided to a patient (Source: Josh Estey/Flickr)
6 February 2018
Eastern Europe & Central Asia
21 December 2017
Vyacheslav Volodin (right) called for a "sustainable hostility" against drugs and the "subculture" around them (Image source: Wikimedia)
20 December 2017
Source: Flickr
1 December 2017
Medical cannabis - stock photo (Source: Flickr)
14 November 2017
Among all the countries of Council of Europe Russia has the largest number of inmates per capita. Majority of inmates is Russia go to prison for drug crimes and most of them are young people. (Source: Ria News)
2 May 2017
The court ruled it "unconstitutional" to imprison someone for personal cannabis use.
16 January 2017
Many Ukrainian doctors are afraid to prescribe opioids, such as tramadol (Source: Wikimedia)
21 December 2016
The Russian government has rolled out naloxone provision in Moscow (Source: Wikimedia).
2 December 2016
The Ukrainian government has vowed to fully fund opioid substitution therapy (Source: Wikimedia).
23 November 2016