Few Drug Addicts Enter HCM City Rehab Clinics – VietNamNet Bridge

Methadone Maintenance: Few drug addicts enter HCM City rehab clinics – VietNamNet Bridge

Few drug addicts enter HCM City rehab clinics
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Five methadone clinics in districts 4, 6, 8, Binh Thanh and Thu Duc have provided methadone maintenance therapy, general health care and drug dependence counselling to 989 drug users. Most of the patients are in good health and have adjusted well to

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Methadone Maintenance: What’s next for HIV prevention? Paying people to be healthy – aidsmap

What's next for HIV prevention? Paying people to be healthy
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When working with people on methadone maintenance treatment, NICE also suggest vouchers or other incentives (such as take-home methadone doses) for clients as long as they test negative for drugs. Critics say that these kind of programmes are a form of

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Methadone Maintenance: IN RE ROBERT H. – Leagle.com

IN RE ROBERT H.
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Mother had abused prescription pain medication and was in a methadone maintenance program. She reported that she saw Robert on September 2, 2009, shaking Alexander with force when the baby would not stop crying. On September 3, 2009, Robert engaged in

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Methadone Maintenance: Sam Sullivan speaks about SALOME -Vancouver’s New Heroin Maintenance Trial at VANDU 7.mp4



In this video, Sam Sullivan, former Mayor of Vancouver talks about SALOME – Vancouver’s New Heroin Maintenance Trial and other things to Members of VANDU and Ann Livingston in Vancouver Downtown Eastside The following text is from stopthedrugwar.org The Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness (SALOME) will choose a Downtown Eastside location next month and begin taking applications from potential participants in February, according to a Tuesday press release from the Inner Change Foundation, which, along with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, is funding the trial. With selection of participants supposed to last only three weeks, that means SALOME could be underway by March. SALOME will enroll 322 hard-core heroin addicts—they must have been using at least five years and failed other treatments, including methadone maintenance—in a year-long, two-phase study. During the first phase, half will be given injectable heroin (diacetylmorphine) and half will be given injectable Dilaudid® (hydromorphone). In the second phase, half of the participants will be switched to oral versions of the drug they are using. The comparison of heroin and Dilaudid® was inspired by unanticipated results from SALOME’s forerunner, NAOMI (the North American Opiate Medication Study), which began in Vancouver in 2005 and produced positive results in research reviews last year. In NAOMI, researchers found that participants could not differentiate between heroin and Dilaudid
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