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
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Drug Methadone: Opiod addiction can be overcome with meds – Lake County News Sun

Opiod addiction can be overcome with meds
Lake County News Sun
Buprenorphine is similar to methadone. It appears to be safer and its withdrawal symptoms briefer. You do not need to attend a clinic to use the drug; doctors in private practice can prescribe it. Buprenorphine is most appropriate for people who are

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Drug Methadone: Drug review minister says methadone must not be the only option – stv.tv

Drug review minister says methadone must not be the only option
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Methadone must not be the only treatment available to drug users, the Legal Affairs Minister has said. An independent expert group has been commissioned by Roseanna Cunningham to gather evidence on the effectiveness of treating users with methadone

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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 must not be the only treatment for drug users – Scottish Daily Record


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Methadone must not be the only treatment for drug users
Scottish Daily Record
The number of people on methadone has risen by a tenth in the last five years, from 22,224 in 2007 to 24,507 this year. Chief Medical Officer Harry Burns will lead the expert group in collaboration with the independent Drugs Strategy Delivery Commission.

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