Managing opioid dependence treatment and controlling for HIV incidence among injecting drug users in Greece: a case study of optimism in the face of adversity.

A letter to the editor is presented which discusses how the Organization Against Drugs (OKANA) has achieved great success in controlling human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Greece, a country plagued by fiscal crisis.