WATCH: Durban drug medication programme is changing lives
An Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) treatment programme run at Bellhaven in Stamford Hill is changing the lives of former whoonga users living on the streets.
THE lives of men and women living on the streets have been changed for the better, thanks to a drug medication programme that was started under lockdown in shelters in Durban.
Berea Mail spoke to former whoonga addicts who have been undergoing the programme since the beginning of lockdown in April, and who are turning their lives around, thanks to treatment they received while in the shelters.
READ RELATED: Centre brings hope to the hopeless The programme is now being run at Bellhaven Memorial Hall in Stamford Hill, which has been turned into the ”African Centre for Hope”, a wellness centre.
Men and women are able to visit the centre to receive doses of methadone, an opioid used to manage pain relief and drug addiction.
Torres Luna, a social worker who has been working at Bellhaven for the past three weeks, said she was amazed at how people are accepted, no matter their circumstances.
Read about two more success stories in this week’s Berea Mail, and find out how you can get involved with funding the project to ensure it can continue into the future.
More videos on this project will be published online during the week.
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