Drug Methadone: Methadone Protects Injected Drug Users From HIV Infection – Medical Daily

Drug Methadone: Methadone Protects Injected Drug Users From HIV Infection – Medical Daily


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Methadone Protects Injected Drug Users From HIV Infection
Medical Daily
An estimated 5 to 10 percent of all HIV cases are due to injected drugs, often due to injection of an opiate like heroin. Opiate substitution therapy (OST) offers replacement drugs like methadone or buprenorphine to illicit drug users. The replacement
Methadone Cuts HIV RiskMedPage Today
Methadone reduces risk of HIV transmission in people who inject drugs, say Medical Xpress
Methadone reduces the risk of HIV transmissionScience Codex
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Drug Methadone: Methadone policy review to improve addicts’ treatment – BBC News


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Methadone policy review to improve addicts' treatment
BBC News
It will gather evidence on substitute drugs such as methadone, and is part of the Scottish government's national drugs strategy. It emphasises recovery from addiction – rather than the previous policy allowing addicts to use alternatives to heroin to
Methadone must not be the only treatment for drug usersScottish Daily Record
Deadlier than heroin, now methadone to be investigatedScotsman

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Drug Methadone: Eve Samples: There’s a flip side to the prescription drug crackdown – TCPalm

Eve Samples: There's a flip side to the prescription drug crackdown
TCPalm
Nor does it help that methadone is best known as a drug for recovering heroin addicts. The fact that his physician, Dr. Francisco Jeannot, is in Broward County also presents a challenge. Pharmacists tend to be leery of out-of-town doctors, but Bender

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Drug Methadone: Methadone clinic to open – TheChronicleHerald.ca


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Methadone clinic to open
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Despite much community opposition, a methadone clinic in Halifax's Fairview district is to open this week, the local councillor said Saturday. Coun. Russell Walker (Fairview-Clayton Park) said the medical centre for people addicted to drugs is to
Fairview methadone clinic will openCBC.ca

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