September 2016

You are beautiful': the Kenyan beauty parlour serving female heroin users
Pedicures, manicures and blow-drys bring women through the door to help them access rehabilitation

Morphine shortage deepens the pain for cancer patients
The Kenya Harmonised Health Facility Assessment report for 2018/19 indicates that cancer patients have to buy their own morphine or take the less effective paracetamols that are mostly available in both public and private hospitals across the country.

THE WRONG WAY TO FIGHT THE OPIOID CRISIS
People struggling with addiction who share a lethal dose of drugs are being prosecuted as killers.