Methadone Opiates in the News

Methadone Opiates: Killer prescription drugs are increasingly being misused
Overdoses of pharmaceutical opioids such as codeine, methadone, morphine and propoxyphene are of concern, rising four-fold since 1999 to 521 in 2009-10. Drug harm reduction group Anex chief executive John Ryan said the use of "harmaceuticals" – a term …
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Methadone Opiates: America's war on drugs: 40 years, a trillion dollars, and debatable results
By the early '70s, methadone treatment was gaining popularity. The idea was to give heroin users a way to regulate their addiction by giving them a low dose of a controlled long-acting cousin to heroin, so they could stop shooting up and break the …
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