Commissioner’s View: Take Action on Methadone, Other Drugs – Budgeteer

Drug Methadone: Commissioner’s view: Take action on methadone, other drugs – Budgeteer

Commissioner's view: Take action on methadone, other drugs
Budgeteer
Ironically, the problem extends to a drug used to treat heroin and other addictions: methadone. Reports of methadone being used illegally and causing the same problems as the drugs it is intended to combat have risen dramatically, in some cases leading

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Drug Methadone: Methadone clinic treats addiction with chance for normalcy – The Mercury

Methadone clinic treats addiction with chance for normalcy
The Mercury
“Unlike heroin or a short or long-acting painkiller, (methadone) stays in your system for anywhere from 24 to 72 hours,” Pierce said. “The beauty of that is now we have a medication we can give to patients that when it attaches to opioid receptors in
Gateway to heroin is often legally prescribed drugsThe Reporter

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Drug Methadone: Suboxone gives recovering drug addicts a clearer mind than methadone – STV Local

Suboxone gives recovering drug addicts a clearer mind than methadone
STV Local
Comparisons between methadone and Suboxone was measured by Dr Conroy using data from interviews with nine service users at Lanarkshire Alcohol and Drug Service and narrative accounts from a further 12 who have been successfully switched from

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Drug Methadone: Methadone may be an imperfect treatment, but it’s a necessary one – The Guardian


The Guardian

Methadone may be an imperfect treatment, but it's a necessary one
The Guardian
The case of the sad death of a child from the diversion of a medication such as methadone generates anger, fear and hostility towards the obvious targets: the parents and the supplier of the lethal drug. This, we say, is collateral damage of an

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