Tetiana Koshova
the President of Charitable Foundation Hope and Trust, the National hotline on drug dependence issues and OST operator
eng: live_page
broadcast recording 22 December, 19:00
Drug Trap: How can we help the families of drug users?
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According to different sources, over 300,000 people in Ukraine use injection drugs. Drug addiction is a problem which becomes a tragedy for both the user and their family. The families of injection drug users face discrimination and stigmatization, lack of effective public policy on helping drug addicts and their families. Isolated social initiatives do not solve all the problems. And the statistics of the number of injection drug addicts shows that to solve this problem, we need a complex approach.
In this conversation, we will discuss why family support is needed by injection drug users; what kind of government support drug users and their families can expect; and what practices exist to protect the human rights of the families of drug users.
The discussion accompanies the screening of Petit Samedi as a part of the 18th Travelling Docudays UA.
Participants
Volodymyr Kurach
head of the TACTIC Centre for Addiction Therapy, public figure
Yevhen Pavliukovsky
moderator, journalist
Maksym Butkevych
expert of the REAct system in Ukraine
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