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Addition to Acknowledgments: Internet Search and Krokodil in the Russian Federation: An Infoveillance Study

Addition to Acknowledgments: Internet Search and Krokodil in the Russian Federation: An Infoveillance Study

The authors would also like to thank Ms Svetlana Chernova in Ukraine for her assistance with data collection and coding, Associate Professor James Gillespie at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney for his advice and support, and Ms Anya Sarang from the Andrey Rylkov Foundation in Moscow for facilitating contacts within Russia. The first sentence was unintentionally omitted in the original submission.

Andrey Zheluk, Casey Quinn, Peter Meylakhs

J Med Internet Res 2016;18(1):e16

Internet Search and Krokodil in the Russian Federation: An Infoveillance Study

Internet Search and Krokodil in the Russian Federation: An Infoveillance Study

For example, in 2011, a website operated by the nongovernmental organization, Andrey Rylkov Foundation, was suspended for publishing public health information about opioid substitution therapy and harm reduction [51]. Russian government policy towards illicit drug use and drug users is regarded as punitive. Moreover, in the post-Soviet period, drug use came to represent an existential threat, implicated in national spiritual and demographic decay (eg, [52]).

Andrey Zheluk, Casey Quinn, Peter Meylakhs

J Med Internet Res 2014;16(9):e212