Drug Methadone

Drug Methadone: MDC shutting down methadone program
Inmates with heroin addictions will soon have to find a way to quit without the help of a powerful medication at the Metropolitan Detention Center. Jail officials said they are cutting their methadone treatment program, citing a lack of success with it. Methadone is a prescription drug that helps heroin and other opiod addicts slowly curb their cravings. "It doesn't bring a lot of value as far …
Drug Methadone – Yahoo! News Search Results

Drug Methadone: Wider Availability of Methadone Helps Curb HIV in Vietnam
Treatment for intravenous drug users in Vietnam remains a very sensitive subject, but the expansion of methadone treatment has been welcomed by HIV clinicians. In 2002 international donors warned that rapidly rising numbers of HIV/AIDS cases could threaten Vietnam’s economic development. A decade later aid groups are praising the country for expanding harm reduction policies, at least in the …
Drug Methadone – Yahoo! News Search Results

Drug Methadone: Methadone ‘stranding’ drug users, insist critics
THE USE of the heroin substitute methadone to help addicts kick their habit has come under attack with a warning that many drug users are being left “stranded in the system”.
Drug Methadone – Yahoo! News Search Results

Find More Drug Methadone Information…