On October 18, 2010, Irina Teplinskaya, drug user from Kaliningrad (Russia), submitted a complaint against Russia to Mr. Anand Grover – UN Special Rapporteur on the Right of Everyone to the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health. The aim of her complaint is to put pressure on Russia to provide opioid substitution therapy (OST) to drug users, an evidence-based treatment recommended by the World Health Organization. Currently OST is available in all the region of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, for the exception of Russia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kosovo. In November 2010 Irina was elected as a member of the Steering Committee of the Eurasian Harm Reduction Network and will work with EHRN for the upcoming 3 years. Read Irina’s life story here.