Methadone

...and Vancouver were vindicated when their controversial study showed giving pure heroin to hardcore heroin addicts was more effective than methadone to treat the addiction. Now, as doctors prepare to launch a second phase of the...

In this article: Heroin, Quebec, Montreal, Opiate, Vancouver, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Cancer, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Thinktank says inmates are swapping one addiction for another Britain's prison system churns out thousands of prisoners addicted to methadone, according to a thinktank with close links to the Tories. The Centre for Policy Studies claims...

In this article: Heroin, Department of Health, Addaction, Prison Service, Tories, Buprenorphine, Ministry of Justice, and Britain

...heroin. The rest will be charged with trafficking either marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school or for selling prescription pills like methadone, oxycodone, Codeine and Vicodin. One person was charged with selling the prescription...

In this article: Cincinnati, Vicodin, Lyrica, Codeine, Cocaine, Oxycodone, and Heroin

The company behind a controversial proposal to open a clinic in Somerset that would provide methadone to drug addicts has decided to halt efforts to open the facility, according to a federal lawsuit. Somerset Addiction Solutions LLC said...

In this article: Pulaski County, Revenue, Opiate, and Heroin

Drug-using offenders should do "cold turkey" in jail rather than be offered alternatives like methadone treatment, a sheriff suggested yesterday. Sheriff Ian Cameron questioned schemes like the Drug Treatment and Testing Order (DTTO) which...

...on methadone treatment. Seropositive (presence of antibodies) results were obtained for 243 women in the methadone group (84 per cent) and 54 in the non-methadone group (three per cent). Data were not available on all of the infants of...

In this article: The Medical Journal of Australia, Hepatitis C, Medical advice, Hepatitis C virus, Cancer, Australian Medical Association, University of Sydney, and Australia

...13 November 2009 By Frank Urquhart PROPOSALS to provide drug addicts in Aberdeen with free heroin on the NHS, as an alternative to methadone, were condemned yesterday by opposition councillors. Opposition councillors warned that the...

In this article: Heroin, Aberdeen, Mecca, and England

...WI 50° high 51° | low 41° Detailed Forecast | 7 Day | Doppler Radar | Alerts | TMJ4 Weather Blog Woman given 10 years in prison in methadone deaths By Mike Johnson of the Journal Sentinel Posted: Nov. 10, 2009 3:40 p.m. Waukesha -...

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...that there is no record of Mr Foster ever having been on the central treatment list. "If somebody who is not used to methadone gets methadone, it can be dangerous," said Dr Barry. Dr Kirk administered just under half the amount Mr Foster...

In this article: Coolock, Cocaine, and Cancer

...Health) - A new study of overdose deaths in Washington State due to prescription opiate drugs shows that most of these deaths involved methadone, and that these overdoses were much more common among people on Medicaid. Washington State...

In this article: Opiate, Medicaid, Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, Reuters Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Washington