Drug Methadone in the News

Drug Methadone: Heroin becomes backup to pills
Recent interdiction seizures indicate that Middle Tennessee has become a prime target for Mexican heroin traffickers, hoping to increase their profits by moving into middle-class surburbs.
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Drug Methadone: Opioids cause of 50,000 U.S. ER visits
SALT LAKE CITY, June 14 (UPI) — Opioids — pain-relief drugs like methadone, morphine and oxycodone — were responsible for nearly 50,000 U.S. emergency room visits in 2006, researchers say.
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Drug Methadone: Africa: ‘War On Drugs’ Blowback Effects
Vast expenditures on criminalization and repressive measures directed at producers, traffickers and consumers of illegal drugs have clearly failed to effectively curtail supply or consumption. [at the same time] the implementation of the war on drugs has generated widespread negative consequences for societies in producer, transit and consumer countries, [including] the growth of a ‘huge …
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