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Boston’s Only Public Methadone Clinic May Shut – Boston Globe

Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe

Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe
They have been to detox probably 50 to 100 times, they always relapse, and they have to find something.” Methadone is a synthetic narcotic that has been used for decades to reduce the craving for opiates, such as heroin, and their withdrawal symptoms.

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Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures – The Intelligencer

Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures
The Intelligencer
… is standard medical protocols believe the risk of danger to the woman and fetus is too great. Instead, they are placed in a methadone replacement program at an outside state-certified treatment center. … In her third day of heroin detox in the

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Why drug users should be decriminalised – Irish Times

Bach Mai Hospital Saves Life of Baby With Measles

Bach Mai hospital saves life of baby with measles
Methadone treatment for drug addicts has proved effective in reducing HIV/AID infections in the central province of Thanh Hoa, which houses six methadone-treatment centres with more than 800 patients. The obvious effect of this therapy is the …
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Plymouth crime gang broken by undercover police operation
Four others convicted as part of the Operation Candid included David Gimblett, who was jailed for two-and-a-half years for supplying class A drugs and offering to supply methadone. Gimblett took officers to his dealer, Mark Foster. Gary Williams was …
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B.C. Addicts in Court Fighting Federal Ban on Prescription Heroin

B.C. addicts in court fighting federal ban on prescription heroin
VANCOUVER – A group of chronic drug addicts are asking a Vancouver judge for an injunction against the federal government that would allow them access to prescription heroin until the court hears their legal challenge of the law. Joseph Arvay, the lawyer representing five heroin addicts, told a judge the four men and one woman were part of a clinical trial that provided them with pharmaceutical …
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Alternative Therapies for Drugs Await Religious Nod

Alternative therapies for drugs await religious nod
  Saudi Gazette report JEDDAH – Alternative therapies like methadone, which can reduce heroin withdrawal symptoms, are still waiting for a religious decree to sanction their use in the Kingdom to treat drug addiction cases, according to Dr. Muhammad Shawoosh, former medical director of Al-Amal Hospital. "Alternative therapies don’t have dangerous side effects and can be used to help drug addicts …
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Heroin From the State for Swiss Addicts

Heroin from the state for Swiss addicts
This seems to work, according to the patients being treated with methadone and Diaphin. There are 220 therapies for heroin … But the federal programme also aims to improve the rate and quality of survival of drug addicts. It does this by stabilising …
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Derby ex-heroin addict: I stole murdered friend's stuff to pay for my fix
Jon said: "It was the first time I looked at my life and re-evaluated. "I was on methadone as a substitution for heroin and I kept myself to myself." He joined a six-week programme with Narcotics Anonymous and moved back in with his mum. That was two …
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Battling the Beast at the Door – Ledger Independent

Battling the beast at the door – Ledger Independent


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Battling the beast at the door
Ledger Independent
For one panel member, identified only as Brad, he has been taking a spiritual approach and 12 step program to get, and remain, drug free after years of addiction and trouble with the law because of it. His life changing moment came in 2011 during an
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Concern over Gloucestershire babies born to drug addicts – Gloucester Citizen

Concern over Gloucestershire babies born to drug addicts
Gloucester Citizen
Babies can be given a substitute for the drug, such as methadone, or morphine, in very small amounts. “They might show signs of withdrawal in hospital but it does go out of their system,” she said. Babies with addicted mums are born with the addiction