BC Patients Still Waiting for Controversial Prescription Heroin – the Globe and Mail

BC patients still waiting for controversial prescription heroin – The Globe and Mail

BC patients still waiting for controversial prescription heroin
The Globe and Mail
While some could not differentiate between hydromorphone and heroin – suggesting hydromorphone could be an effective, legal substitute for heroin – doctors are reluctant to prescribe as a heroin addiction treatment as the SALOME study is ongoing.

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OPINION: Legal pot makes sense – Cincinnati.com

OPINION: Legal pot makes sense
Cincinnati.com
Despite the outlay of over a trillion dollars since 1970, thousands killed in drug-related violence and the imprisonment of Americans at a rate higher than any other country in the world, the heroin problem is significantly worse today than it was in

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ACP Issues Wake-up Call on Prescription Drug Abuse – Medscape

ACP Issues Wake-up Call on Prescription Drug Abuse
Medscape
The American College of Physicians (ACP) has issued a policy position paper on prescription drug abuse in an effort to stem the "epidemic" of deaths from prescription drug overdose that is occurring. Recommendations in the position paper, published

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Change text size for the story – London Free Press

Change text size for the story
London Free Press
Methadone is a long-acting drug used in substanceabuse treatment. Currently, a doctor is contracted to visit the jail weekly but nurses are available from 7 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.. The suggestions adopted by the jury were reasonable and practical, said

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