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Harper Tories Endorse Heroin Research Project – Globe and Mail

Methadone Heroin: Harper Tories endorse heroin research project – Globe and Mail
The NAOMI experiment found that diehard addicts provided with free heroin were far more likely to remain in addiction treatment and much less prone to take street drugs and commit crimes to support their habit than those treated with methadone. But …
Methadone Heroin – Bing News

Methadone Heroin: N.S. funds methadone treatment program for Annapolis Valley addicts – Brandon Sun
The province says they could begin receiving the drug as early as next week. Methadone is a synthetic opiate that can be used to help treat addictions to heroin, oxycodone and other opiates. Prescription drug abuse has been a problem in the Annapolis …
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Methadone Heroin: UBC-Providence Health research to examine new treatments for heroin addiction – Healthcanal.com
NAOMI, which also was led by researchers from Providence Health Care and UBC, was a randomized trial aimed at testing whether medically prescribed heroin (diacetylmorphine) was more effective than methadone therapy for individuals with chronic heroin …
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Methadone Heroin: Harper Tories Endorse Heroin Research Project – Globe and Mail

Methadone Heroin: Harper Tories endorse heroin research project – Globe and Mail


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Harper Tories endorse heroin research project
Globe and Mail
Half are to receive heroin, and half hydromorphone, with none knowing which opiate they are getting. A small number of addicts enrolled in the earlier NAOMI trial were given the legal opiate, rather than heroin or methadone.
Vancouver clinical trials to test effectiveness of pain reliever as heroin Vancouver Sun
Research to Look at New Treatments for Heroin AddictionMarketWatch (press release)
Vancouver trial will test new heroin treatment methodsOpen File (blog)

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Methadone Heroin: Father: The drugs made me do it – Shreveport Times

Father: The drugs made me do it
Shreveport Times
Special to The Times The morning Bertie Randal Hicks' baby daughter was gravely injured, he smoked marijuana and took some methadone. The drugs — especially the methadone, a heroin alternative — impaired his judgment and made him react in a way he

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Methadone Heroin: Research to Look at New Treatments for Heroin Addiction – msnbc.com

Methadone Heroin: Research to Look at New Treatments for Heroin Addiction – msnbc.com
NAOMI, which also was led by researchers from Providence Health Care and UBC, was a randomized trial aimed at testing whether medically prescribed heroin (diacetylmorphine) was more effective than methadone therapy for individuals with chronic heroin …
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Methadone Heroin: Methadone clinic blocked – Post-Star
Methadone is used to help wean heroin and pain killer addicts off opiates. Dr. John Melbourne, medical director for Conifer Park, said suboxone, another medication used to wean addicts off opiates, already is prescribed at the privately owned facility.
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Methadone Heroin: Upswing in hard drug use worries – The Daily Planet
Heroin, a once-popular drug in the box canyon, is pressing its way into the forefront again — putting health officials and police on edge. An overdose killed one person this summer, and another died of a methadone overdose earlier this year.
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Methadone Heroin: Father: The Drugs Made Me Do It

Methadone Heroin: Father: The drugs made me do it
On the morning Bertie Hicks’ baby daughter was gravely injured, he smoked marijuana and took some methadone. The drugs “” especially the heroin alternative “” impaired his judgement and made him react in a way he wouldn’t have normally, Hicks later told Webster sheriff deputies.
Methadone Heroin – Yahoo! News Search Results

Methadone Heroin: Research to Look at New Treatments for Heroin Addiction
Clinical Trial to Test Better Treatment Options for Chronic Heroin Addiction Is Expected to Begin in Vancouver at the End of This Year
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Methadone Heroin: UBC-Providence Health research to examine new treatments for heroin addiction
( University of British Columbia ) A clinical trial to test better treatment options for chronic heroin addiction is expected to begin in Vancouver at the end of this year. Led by researchers from Providence Health Care and the University of British Columbia, it’s the only clinical trial of its kind in North America.
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Methadone Heroin: Addicts Left to ‘Languish and Die’ – Canada East

Methadone Heroin: Addicts left to ‘languish and die’ – Canada East
As of last week, there were 317 people on the list for methadone – a substance used to ease opiate addictions, such as Dilaudid, OxyContin or heroin. That compares to 329 in July, and 324 in August of 2009, when the site opened, according to statistics …
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Methadone Heroin: Corrections: October 12 – New York Times

Methadone Heroin: Corrections: October 12 – New York Times

Corrections: October 12
New York Times
An article on Oct. 4 about efforts to develop vaccines against drug addiction misstated the function of Suboxone and methadone, anti-opiates that are used to treat heroin addiction. While anti-opiates induce a mild high in many patients,

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Methadone Heroin: Local news in brief, Oct. 12, 2011 – Santa Fe New Mexican.com

Local news in brief, Oct. 12, 2011
Santa Fe New Mexican.com
Relatives of James E. Stauffer of Santa Fe, who died of an apparent methadone overdose, are suing the clinic where he received the drug. Last Thanksgiving, Stauffer told his niece, Carmella Chavez, that he wanted help getting off heroin.

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Methadone Heroin: David Hunter: Michael Jackson responsible for his own death – Knoxville News Sentinel