Crisis Looms for Addicts as Russia Bans Methadone in Crimea – Drug War Chronicle

Crisis Looms for Addicts as Russia Bans Methadone in Crimea – Drug War Chronicle

Crisis Looms for Addicts as Russia Bans Methadone in Crimea
Drug War Chronicle
Russia does not support efficient programs for preventing HIV and Hepatitis C among its drug using population, and harm reduction measures like needle exchanges and opiate substitution therapy (OST), of which methadone maintenance is a subset, are …

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My View: Fighting heroin will take the whole community – Rockford Register Star

My View: Fighting heroin will take the whole community
Rockford Register Star
Each year, more than 2,000 citizens in our community seek and receive treatment and support through individual counseling services, group therapy and our methadone maintenance therapy program. The goal for all individuals is to abstain from substances …

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Watson: Treating drug addiction needs less stigma – The Salem News

Watson: Treating drug addiction needs less stigma
The Salem News
Recently, a cluster of heroin overdoses and deaths on the South Shore of Massachusetts captured public attention and focused both citizens and local and state officials on the issues of drug use, prevention and treatment. Since 1996, when opiate-based

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Dosage errors may have tilted clinical heroin trial, BC court hears – The Globe and Mail

Dosage errors may have tilted clinical heroin trial, BC court hears
The Globe and Mail
The study, led by researchers from Providence Health Care and the University of British Columbia, had concluded that participants on heroin-assisted therapy fared better overall than those on methadone maintenance therapy. Benefits included improved …

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Titan Pharmaceuticals Announces Fourth Quarter and Year End 2013 Financial … – SYS-CON Media (press release)

Titan Pharmaceuticals Announces Fourth Quarter and Year End 2013 Financial
SYS-CON Media (press release)
… are approximately 2.7 million people with opioid dependence in the U.S. Approximately 20 percent of this population is addicted to illicit opioids, such as heroin, and the other 80 percent to prescription opioids, such as oxycodone, hydrocodone

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