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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
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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 »

Addiction Meds Effective but Buprenorphine a Better Bet? – Medscape

Addiction Meds Effective but Buprenorphine a Better Bet? – Medscape

Addiction Meds Effective but Buprenorphine a Better Bet?
Medscape
Both buprenorphine maintenance treatment (BMT) and methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) are associated with improved outcomes for individuals with opioid use disorders, according to results of 2 separate literature reviews. MMT should be a covered …

Methadone Maintenance – Google News

Time for a local drug treatment center or methadone clinic, say some officials – Bennington Banner

Time for a local drug treatment center or methadone clinic, say some officials
Bennington Banner
BENNINGTON — The time may be ripe for a drug treatment center to come to Bennington, according to a state senator and town leaders. "I think it's time for Bennington to start to work to have a methadone clinic, whether it be a mobile one that's here a

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Methadone Maintenance – Google News

Buprenorphine Prescribing ‘Disappointingly Low’ – Medscape

Buprenorphine Prescribing ‘Disappointingly Low’ – Medscape

Buprenorphine Prescribing 'Disappointingly Low'
Medscape
"Prior to that, patients had to go to a methadone maintenance clinic, which are not available to a large part of the population, are extremely onerous, and all have long waiting lists. The hope was that physicians would begin to prescribe buprenorphine

Methadone Maintenance – Google News

More Methadone Maintenance Information…

Addiction Meds Effective but Buprenorphine a Better Bet? – Medscape

Addiction Meds Effective but Buprenorphine a Better Bet? – Medscape

Addiction Meds Effective but Buprenorphine a Better Bet?
Medscape
Both buprenorphine maintenance treatment (BMT) and methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) are associated with improved outcomes for individuals with opioid use disorders, according to results of 2 separate literature reviews. MMT should be a covered 

Methadone Maintenance – Google News

Will ‘Son of God’ Be the Next Grassroots Christian Blockbuster? – Daily Beast

Will 'Son of God' Be the Next Grassroots Christian Blockbuster?
Daily Beast
Maintenance? That's a program where pharmaceutical, clean heroin (or other opiate) is administered in a controlled, clinical setting to addicts who have not benefited from other, more traditional treatments such as methadone. “The advantage is he can 

Methadone Maintenance – Google News

Related Methadone Maintenance Information…

Methadone or Buprenorphine for Maintenance Therapy of Opioid Addiction … – Medscape

Methadone or Buprenorphine for Maintenance Therapy of Opioid Addiction … – Medscape

Methadone or Buprenorphine for Maintenance Therapy of Opioid Addiction
Medscape
Current long-term treatment options for OUD include abstinence or nonpharmacologic intervention programs, methadone maintenance therapy, buprenorphine maintenance therapy, buprenorphine/naloxone combination maintenance treatment, and 

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Methadone Maintenance – Google News

Vancouver Rexall pharmacy robbed of strong methadone – CBC.ca


CBC.ca

Vancouver Rexall pharmacy robbed of strong methadone
CBC.ca
in overdoses, particularly by street users who obtain illicit methadone. According to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia, there were more than 14,500 people registered in the province's methadone maintenance program in 2013.

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Methadone Maintenance – Google News

Methadone a local treatment option for recovery – Plattsburgh Press Republican

Methadone a local treatment option for recovery
Plattsburgh Press Republican
PLATTSBURGH — Locals suffering from opiate addiction can now receive methadone treatment in the North Country. In November, Conifer Park's Plattsburgh Outpatient Clinic launched a methadone maintenance program, which, according to Joe 

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