Dosage Errors May Have Tilted Clinical Heroin Trial, BC Court Hears
Dosage errors may have tilted clinical heroin trial, BC court hears
Last fall, Health Canada authorized applications for 21 of the participants – severe heroin addicts who have failed numerous times at conventional treatments such as methadone – to receive three-month supplies of diacetylmorphine (prescription heroin …
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Mother Charged With Murder In 2013 Infant Methadone Death
Methadone is a synthetic opiate which is used in medical settings to help treat patients with opiate addictions. 28-year-old Charissa Ranee Bailey of Long Beach, the mother of the deceased infant, was arrested Friday, March 21. After homicide …
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Modern-day addicts defy the 'junkie' stereotype
FALL RIVER — The face of opioid addiction is no longer the disheveled, down-and-out jobless heroin addict on the street corner. … “We have an epidemic of opiate abuse in Massachusetts, so we will treat it like the public health crisis it is …
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