SWITZERLAND

Jacky Buensoz in Success Story
September 15, 2022

The Freedom of Living Drug-Free

Now it’s been 29 years that I live without drugs, I have 2 beautiful boys fulfilled in life, I do a job that makes me happy and I live life to the fullest every day.

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Jacky Buensoz in Success Story
December 16, 2021

I Woke Up From 20 Years of Being an Addict

For almost 20 years I lived in total darkness and I could not even say that during those 20 years I felt happy or that anyone would have told me “Fabio you are a special guy.” None of that, by then my label was decided by everyone to be that of “the addict.”

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Ren in Drug Rehab
November 4, 2021

Efforts Towards Harm Reduction Overshadow Efforts Towards Treating Addiction in Switzerland

Switzerland is often hailed as a success for lowering drug overdose deaths among its residents. But closer inspection reveals Swiss public health officials and policymakers aren’t solving the addiction problem, they’re merely putting it off.

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Is Heroin-Assisted Treatment a Solution for Addiction in the EU?

In the early 1990s, images of Zurich’s “Needle Park” sent shock waves around the world. In an effort to solve this problem, some people were given pharmaceutical heroin daily. Was this a good idea or a bad one?

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