‘…So when Russia annexed Crimea, 800 people were suddenly cut off from their [methadone and buprenorphine] treatment [….] In January, UN Special Envoy Michel Kazatchkine announced that approximately 80 to 100 people had died in Crimea since the drug treatment programs closed. That’s nearly one out of every ten patients…’
via Mass Deaths in Crimea as Russia Bans Methadone | Open Society Foundations (OSF).