Methadone Opiates in the News

Methadone Opiates: Scottish annual drug deaths coming down from record levels
174 were linked to heroin substitute methadone, benzodiazepines to 154, alcohol to 127, cocaine to 33 and amphetamines to three. Nobody was killed by ecstacy. One in four involved a woman, with 33% of the dead aged between 25 and 34. …
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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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