The United Nations' AIDS envoy sounded the alarm over an impending health catastrophe in Russia's newly acquired Crimean Peninsula, where nearly 100 recovering heroin addicts have died as a result of Russia's abolishment of a methadone program. "The causes of death, from what we have been hearing, are mainly from suicide and overdose," Michel Kazatchkine said. Prior to Russia's annexation of Crimea in March, 805 people were receiving opioid substitution therapy under Ukrainian rule. (See also: Number of Russians with HIV to reach 1 million by 2016)