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MATRIX during a drug rehabilitation and harm reduction programme in Zimbabwe
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Drug Harm Reduction Expert Raises Red Flag Over Zimbabwe’s Militarised Rehabilitation Centres

Michael Gwarisa

By Michael Gwarisa Zimbabwe’s growing drug and substance abuse crisis has renewed debate over how people who use drugs are treated, with harm reduction expert Wilson Box questioning the effectiveness of militarised and highly regimented rehabilitation programmes. Box argues that drug dependence should be approached primarily as a public health issue rather than through punitive

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