Why Russia Says No To Methadone?


The HCLU video advocacy team attended the Second Eastern Europe and Central Asia AIDS Conference (EECAAC) in Moscow, 3-5 May, 2008. Our main priority was to interview narcologists (addiction specialist doctors) and create a short advocacy movie on the lack of methadone substitution treatment in Russia. We believe that it is one of the biggest scandal of the world of drug treatment that substituion treatment is banned in a country with 1,5 million people living with HIV – the majority of them infected through the sharing of injecting equipment. Methadone substitution treatment is one of the best available tools of HIV prevention among injecting drug users according to all relevant international organizations (e.g. WHO, UNODC, UNAIDS), the scientific literature proving its positive impacts on public health and security can fill a whole library: it improves the health and social well-being of users, it prevents them from committing crimes, it decreases illicit drug use and needle and syringe sharing among them. Together with the majority of drug treatment specialists from all over the world we are confident that the lack of access to methadone maintenance treatment in Russia is a basic violation of the human rights of people who use drugs.
So, why Russia says no to methadone after all?
Watch our video to find the answer(s)!
Posted by Peter Sarosi




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Russia may rethink on Methadone
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Substitution??
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I've never heard about "endorphin replacement therapy" - all relevant organizations I know use opiate substitution treatment (OST), so it seems there is quite low awareness about the term suggested by you. So before attacking us for using this term maybe you need to make your point to the international organizations and networks, for example IHRA.
Actually I find "endorphin replacement therapy" misleading and inaccurate. Methadone treatment IS replacing an illegal drug with a legal drug, and I don't see the arguments why should it be changed.
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Wow Russia is truly full of idiot "Narcologists", dumb name too. You know what I love about America?! I can sit here with freedom of speech and the Russian government can fricken try and shut me up! This is morally wrong, its been proven that both Methadone, Buprenorphine and even Heroin maintenance therapy's are highly effective! If you look at something with a narrow mind of course your not going to see it any other way. The thing that they don't understand is that no matter what true junky's are gonna get there drugs, with "Krokodil" aka illicit Desomorphine with horrendous contaminants causing necrosis and massive tissue damage I would think they would give the boot to their ancient "Narcologists". Oh well I guess Russia will rot of HIV, TB, Necrosis, and overall self-destructive behavior for a while longer. I feel bad though.