Medications for opioid use disorder during war in Ukraine: Innovations in public and private clinic cooperation - The Lancet Regional Health – Europe
The Russian Federation bans methadone and prioritizes its discontinuation in occupied Ukrainian territories. Escalation of war in Ukraine has disrupted care for people with opioid use disorder (OUD). Here, we describe OUD care before February 24, 2022, outline current problems, provide examples where Ukraine's synergistic response by the public and private sectors innovatively responded to the ongoing invasion and suggest a way forward.
No Safe Place: Substance Use Therapy in Wartorn Ukraine | Global Health NOW
Among the millions of Ukrainians threatened and displaced by Russia’s invasion is an especially vulnerable group: people being treated for substance use disorders.
Introducing methadone maintenance therapy into Ukrainian prisons: a qualitative study of criminal subculture, Russia’s full-scale invasion, and contested methadone objects - PMC
After pilot testing, methadone was newly being introduced into Ukrainian prisons in 2021 as part of a national scale-up strategy to treat opioid use disorder and prevent transmission of HIV and HCV infections. Opioid agonist therapy (OAT) scale-up in ...
A Hotline Operator’s Tireless Efforts to Keep People on Drug Treatment Despite War in Ukraine - Opinion - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
A giant explosion that shattered a neighboring building’s windows announced the arrival of the war on February 24, 2022. The next days and weeks were surreal.
Why People Who Inject Drugs Voluntarily Transition Off Methadone in Ukraine - Julia Rozanova, Ruthanne Marcus, Faye S. Taxman, Martha J. Bojko, Lynn Madden, Scott O. Farnum, Alyona Mazhnaya, Sergii Dvoriak, Frederick L. Altice, 2017
Methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) treats opioid use disorder among people who inject drugs (PWID). To understand why PWID may voluntarily discontinue MMT, we ...
Successful transfer of stable patients on opioid agonist therapies from specialty addiction treatment to primary care settings in Ukraine: A pilot study - ScienceDirect
In Ukraine, HIV is concentrated among people who inject drugs (PWID), and opioid agonist therapies (OAT) are the most effective approach to preventing…
Crimea's Methadone Ban Hitting Rehab Patients Hard
Activists in Ukraine's Crimea say that narcotics patients are suffering since Russia banned drug-replacement therapy shortly after it annexed the Black Sea Peninsula. Tens have reportedly died and dozens more have left the region to continue treatment in other parts of Ukraine.
Crimea's Methadone Ban Hitting Rehab Patients Hard
Activists in Ukraine's Crimea say that narcotics patients are suffering since Russia banned drug-replacement therapy shortly after it annexed the Black Sea Peninsula. Tens have reportedly died and dozens more have left the region to continue treatment in other parts of Ukraine.