Addiction Recovery With Methadone Is Still Recovery – Boing Boing

Addiction recovery with methadone is still recovery – Boing Boing

Addiction recovery with methadone is still recovery
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Opioid addicts enrolled in maintenance programs that replace drugs like heroin with drugs like methadone are 70 percent less likely to die than addicts who are not enrolled in those programs. They're also less likely to spread or contract HIV, and

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What Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Sponsor Could Have Done for Him – TIME (blog)

What Philip Seymour Hoffman's Sponsor Could Have Done for Him
TIME (blog)
This issue is most acute when it comes to the long-term use of medications like methadone or Suboxone to treat heroin and other opioid addictions, NA sponsors have traditionally viewed this practice as “not recovery” and as violating the program's

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Canada needs to adopt a prison harm reduction program – rabble.ca


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Canada needs to adopt a prison harm reduction program
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For example, Methadone maintenance programs had their genesis in the 1960s, when physicians Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander, who were treating heroin addiction in New York City, observed a cycle of repeat incarceration. Their patients would 

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Drug helps many quit heroin habit – The Cranberry Eagle

Drug helps many quit heroin habit
The Cranberry Eagle
Methadone treatment has a proven record of over 45 years as a treatment for harm reduction, reducing criminal activity and improving citizenship within the community,” said Jennifer McMurtrie, the program director at the Discovery House. The Discovery 

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Adventures in Recovery 6-26-13 Methadone program – 12 Step program — 12 step programs. Do they have an official stance on methadone programs?


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