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Heroin-Assisted Tx Superior to Methadone for Heroin Addiction – Medscape

Heroin-Assisted Tx Superior to Methadone for Heroin Addiction – Medscape

Heroin-Assisted Tx Superior to Methadone for Heroin Addiction
Medscape
"In Switzerland, a new treatment with prescribed diacetylmorphine (pharmaceutical heroin) was developed to help…heroin addicts resistant to methadone treatment to decrease their street heroin use," explain the researchers. This heroin-assisted

Methadone Heroin – Google News

Peaches allegedly ‘secretly visited’ rehab clinic in weeks before her death – Daily Mail


Daily Mail

Peaches allegedly 'secretly visited' rehab clinic in weeks before her death
Daily Mail
It has similar effects to heroin but does not deliver the same degree of buzz or high as the class A drug. An addict's prescription for methadone is gradually reduced over time, as their treatment progresses. It enables a patient to give up heroin
Tragic Peaches Geldof 'secretly visited a drug rehab clinic in weeks before Mirror.co.uk
Peaches Geldof 'made secret rehab visits in the weeks prior to her death'Metro
Peaches Geldof 'on methadone'The West Australian
Evening Standard –Express.co.uk –Auckland stuff.co.nz
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Heroin-Assisted Tx Superior to Methadone for Heroin Addiction – Medscape

Heroin-Assisted Tx Superior to Methadone for Heroin Addiction – Medscape

Heroin-Assisted Tx Superior to Methadone for Heroin Addiction
Medscape
"In Switzerland, a new treatment with prescribed diacetylmorphine (pharmaceutical heroin) was developed to help…heroin addicts resistant to methadone treatment to decrease their street heroin use," explain the researchers. This heroin-assisted

Methadone Heroin – Google News

Peaches allegedly ‘secretly visited’ rehab clinic in weeks before her death – Daily Mail


Daily Mail

Peaches allegedly 'secretly visited' rehab clinic in weeks before her death
Daily Mail
It has similar effects to heroin but does not deliver the same degree of buzz or high as the class A drug. An addict's prescription for methadone is gradually reduced over time, as their treatment progresses. It enables a patient to give up heroin
Tragic Peaches Geldof 'secretly visited a drug rehab clinic in weeks before Mirror.co.uk
Peaches Geldof 'made secret rehab visits in the weeks prior to her death'Metro
Peaches Geldof 'on methadone'The West Australian
Evening Standard –Express.co.uk –Auckland stuff.co.nz
all 962 news articles »

Boston to Shutter Drug Treatment Facility – Boston Globe

Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe

Boston to shutter drug treatment facility
Boston Globe
More than 400 opiate addicts in Boston who receive daily doses of methadone from a public clinic on Frontage Road will be steered to a for-profit facility by summer, health officials said. In a 6-to-1 vote last week, Boston's Board of Health decided to

Methadone Opiates – Google News

Highlighting the dangers of methadone – KRNV My News 4

Highlighting the dangers of methadone
KRNV My News 4
Pinson believes one of the reasons methadone is responsible for overdose deaths is because it's cheaper than other opiate drugs. "It causes many insurance companies or healthcare providers to make it more attractive to physicians to use methadone
Reno mayoral candidate Perri died of accidental methadone overdoseThe Tribune

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Methadone Opiates – Google News

Addicts benefit from Vancouver’s medicinal marijuana dispensaries – Straight.com

Boston to Shutter Drug Treatment Facility – Boston Globe

Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe

Boston to shutter drug treatment facility
Boston Globe
In a 6-to-1 vote last week, Boston's Board of Health decided to end more than 40 years of city-run methadone treatment, which uses the narcotic to wean addicts from heroin and other opiates. The addiction services will now be handled by Community …

Methadone Opiates – Google News

Action needed on risk of child deaths from opiate substitutes, says charity – Communitycare.co.uk

Action needed on risk of child deaths from opiate substitutes, says charity
Communitycare.co.uk
opiate substitutes prescribed to parents, Adfam has warned. A report by the substance misuse charity says that between 2003 and 2013 there were 20 serious case reviews that involved children taking medicines like methadone and buprenorphine that

Methadone Opiates – Google News

Parents using methadone to pacify children, charity warns – The Guardian

Parents Using Methadone to Pacify Children, Charity Warns – the Guardian

Parents using methadone to pacify children, charity warns – The Guardian


The Guardian

Parents using methadone to pacify children, charity warns
The Guardian
In the first detailed examination of the risks to children of drug treatment medications, the charity Adfam said that in the last five years there were 17 serious case reviews – undertaken when a child in care dies from abuse or neglect – involving

Methadone Opiates – Google News

Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe

Boston to shutter drug treatment facility
Boston Globe
More than 400 opiate addicts in Boston who receive daily doses of methadone from a public clinic on Frontage Road will be steered to a for-profit facility by summer, health officials said. In a 6-to-1 vote last week, Boston's Board of Health decided to

Methadone Opiates – Google News

Parents Using Methadone to Pacify Children, Charity Warns – the Guardian

Parents using methadone to pacify children, charity warns – The Guardian


The Guardian

Parents using methadone to pacify children, charity warns
The Guardian
In the first detailed examination of the risks to children of drug treatment medications, the charity Adfam said that in the last five years there were 17 serious case reviews – undertaken when a child in care dies from abuse or neglect – involving

Methadone Opiates – Google News

Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe

Boston to shutter drug treatment facility
Boston Globe
More than 400 opiate addicts in Boston who receive daily doses of methadone from a public clinic on Frontage Road will be steered to a for-profit facility by summer, health officials said. In a 6-to-1 vote last week, Boston's Board of Health decided to

Methadone Opiates – Google News