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Nearly 100 Drug Users Died in Crimea After Russia Closed Methadone Program
The United Nations' AIDS envoy on Wednesday sounded the alarm over what he described as an impending health catastrophe in Russia's newly acquired Crimean Peninsula, where he said nearly 100 recovering drug addicts have died since the spring as a result of Russia's abolishment of a methadone program. "The causes of death, from what we have been hearing, are mainly from suicide and overdose," Michel Kazatchkine was cited...
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