Long-Term Methadone Use Is Form of ‘State-Sponsored Social Control’ – Irish Times

Long-term methadone use is form of ‘State-sponsored social control’ – Irish Times

Long-term methadone use is form of 'State-sponsored social control'
Irish Times
Maintaining drug users on the heroin-replacement drug methadone is a form of State-sponsored social control that substitutes one addictive opiate drug for another, the head of one of Dublin's biggest drug-free rehabilitation projects has said. Irene

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Fatal addiction: Britain’s 6200 state-sponsored drug addicts hooked on heroin … – Daily Mail


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Fatal addiction: Britain's 6200 state-sponsored drug addicts hooked on heroin
Daily Mail
Kathy Gyngell, author of a report on methadone for the Centre for Policy Studies, added: 'The figures add up to billions of pounds wasted. These people might have come off drugs had they not been kept on methadone, which keeps them dependent on drugs 

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Girl drugged with heroin substitute by Boots pharmacist confused drugs – Daily Mail


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Girl drugged with heroin substitute by Boots pharmacist confused drugs
Daily Mail
Later the same day, the addict arrived at the Boots branch to collect her methadone but a different pharmacist refused to hand it over, saying their records showed it had already been given out. The report says that the mother then gave her daughter

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Drug slammed as ‘methadone for alcoholics’ could cost NHS Scotland more than … – Scottish Daily Record

Drug slammed as 'methadone for alcoholics' could cost NHS Scotland more than
Scottish Daily Record
But campaigners and politicians have questioned the drug's effectiveness and cautioned against creating a “methadone for alcohol”. The £3.03-a-pill treatment was given the green light yesterday by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC), making

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Hundreds of prisoners receiving methadone – Herald Sun

Hundreds of prisoners receiving methadone
Herald Sun
It was a 20 per cent increase in the number of drug-addicted inmates on methadone in Victorian prisons since January 2010. But Ms Tosolini said the proportion of inmates on the program, compared to the total prison population had remained steady at

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