In pictures: Beating heroin in Russia

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In pictures: Beating heroin in Russia
BBC
2.3.08

Heroin scourge

Heroin has plagued Yekaterinburg, Russia's fifth-largest city (pop 1.3m), for more than a decade.

Campaigners believe it has caused about 50,000 deaths since 1999 in the Urals city and surrounding Sverdlovsk Region (total pop 4.5m).

Officially, 80,000 people die in Russia annually from drug-related causes.

Drug-Free City is a private Yekaterinburg fund campaigning for tougher action against the heroin trade and providing rehab centres outside the city which offer a “cold turkey” cure.

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Cold turkey

Izoplit's withdrawal programme was devised by former heroin addicts, not doctors, and they do not offer any heroin substitutes like methadone.

Addicts are asked to handcuff themselves to their bunks initially, to keep them restrained during the agony of lomki (cold turkey).

"For me, it's not a problem because it helps," says Valentin, after 23 days in quarantine.

"Some people who come here are aggressive or dizzy from drugs or medicines, so it's necessary."

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Click on the link and scroll through the photos. Each photo has a couple small paragraphs.


I know it's not the typical type of thread you see in DiTM, but I think some of you may also find it interesting.
 
Their methods are a tad radical but it's obvious they care a lot.

Also, 80,000 drug-related deaths a year in Russia? That's 20x the number in Amerika, comrade... 8o
 
Damn...they are handcuffed to the bed to go through the withdrawels of going cold turkey.
I'll take my methadone, thank you very much, and eventually ween off it.
 
^^^^ Actually, I think it mentions they request the patient to handcuff himself to the bed--which implies a modicum of choice in the matter.
 
Damn, that's nuts. Handcuffing yourself to a bed to go through CT WD? Fuck that. And a diet of ONLY bread and water? Shit, sounds like Alcatraz. They also said there were kids in there at 13 YO and a 12YO heroin addict. That is rough. But who the fuck sells heroin to a 12 YO? I know that dealers don't give a shit about people, but a 12 YO? I just can't see it.
 
Its Russia, different social climate.

Why the fuck can't people handcuff themselves to a bed at home? How the fuck do they use the loo?
 
in soviet russia, heroin gets clean off you.

sorry, bad yakov smirnoff joke..

i cant imagine how horrible it would be to have an arm cuffed to a bed. i think i might go wolf style and try to gnaw my own hand off.
 
Russia has never looked like a happy place in any of the pictures I have seen.
Except the 22 year old female tennis stars.
 
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