Long-Term Methadone Use Is Form of ‘State-Sponsored Social Control’ – Irish Times
Long-term methadone use is form of ‘State-sponsored social control’ – Irish Times
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Long-term methadone use is form of 'State-sponsored social control'
Irish Times Maintaining drug users on the heroin-replacement drug methadone is a form of State-sponsored social control that substitutes one addictive opiate drug for another, the head of one of Dublin's biggest drug-free rehabilitation projects has said. Irene … |
Drug slammed as ‘methadone for alcoholics’ could cost NHS Scotland more than … – Scottish Daily Record
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Drug slammed as 'methadone for alcoholics' could cost NHS Scotland more than …
Scottish Daily Record But campaigners and politicians have questioned the drug's effectiveness and cautioned against creating a “methadone for alcohol”. The £3.03-a-pill treatment was given the green light yesterday by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC), making … |
Teen’s methadone death prompts call for changes – The Age
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Teen's methadone death prompts call for changes
The Age While 21 of the cases definitively involved third parties who got the drug from a member of the program, the research suggested that number could be much higher as the source of the methadone in 56 cases was unknown, Dr Jeremy Dwyer reported. Coroner slams management of the methadone program Call for rethink of Vic methadone program Doctor's Prescription of Methadone Causes 21 Shameful Deaths; Patients Abuse … |
Hundreds of prisoners receiving methadone – Herald Sun
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Hundreds of prisoners receiving methadone
Herald Sun It was a 20 per cent increase in the number of drug-addicted inmates on methadone in Victorian prisons since January 2010. But Ms Tosolini said the proportion of inmates on the program, compared to the total prison population had remained steady at … |
Girl drugged with heroin substitute by Boots pharmacist confused drugs – Daily Mail
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Girl drugged with heroin substitute by Boots pharmacist confused drugs
Daily Mail Later the same day, the addict arrived at the Boots branch to collect her methadone but a different pharmacist refused to hand it over, saying their records showed it had already been given out. The report says that the mother then gave her daughter … |
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