ADVOCACY ON DRUG USE IN GEORGIA: PUBLIC HEALTH AND HARM REDUCTION ARGUMENTS MAY PRODUCE BETTER RESULTS
ABSTRACT In Georgia, the government supports opioid substitution therapy programs at the same time as it enforces repressive drug policies and laws on the use of illicit drugs. Activists have been using human rights arguments to convince the government to change its repressive policies. In this commentary, Tinatin Zardiashvili argues that a public health and harm reduction approach might prove more effective.
By Tinatin Zardiashvili
September 17, 2016
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