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Question by TheseBlueEyesWillBreakYourHeart: How easy is it to obtain a prescription for Methadone?
I am not asking so that I can get some…
Someone dear to me has just passed away. He was a cocaine addict and experienced a lot of back pain. After he died I found out he had been taking Methadone for 3 days. He had more than 100 pills prescribed by his doctor. He basically just stopped breathing in his sleep and his heart failed. Why would his doctor prescribe him Methadone when a simple blood test would confirm he occasionally takes drugs? I thought patients on Methadone were monitored not handed hundreds of pills…

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Answer by hazaamohammed
Methadone could help cocaine addicts: study

Tom Spears
Canwest News Service
11.25.08

Methadone, adrugusedformanyyears to treat heroin addiction, also appears to work well against cocaine addiction, a new Canadian study suggests.    Read more...

Methadone And Drug Tests in the News

Methadone And Drug Tests: Other drugs replace heroin as highest risk
However cocaine use is widespread and increasing, while legal highs are now flooding Shetland to become the drug of choice for young people as they are cheap and carry no risk of arrest. However their use has seen two … CADSS manager Gill Hession …
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Methadone And Drug Tests: MPs hear statement on probation
I welcome the Secretary of State's commitment to drug treatment. Does he share my concern that, in the past 10 years, there has been a 165% increase in methadone maintenance prescriptions in prisons but a 30% reduction in detoxification procedures?
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Methadone And Drug Tests in the News

Methadone And Drug Tests: Titan Pharmaceuticals Licenses Exclusive Probuphine(R) Commercialization …
Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, those risks and uncertainties relating to difficulties or delays in development, testing, regulatory approval, production and marketing of the Company's drug candidates …
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Methadone And Drug Tests: MPs hear statement on probation
I welcome the Secretary of State's commitment to drug treatment. Does he share my concern that, in the past 10 years, there has been a 165% increase in methadone maintenance prescriptions in prisons but a 30% reduction in detoxification procedures?
Read more on DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)

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Question by tgfann: Methadone use question ?
My sister has been acting very strange for about 2 years now, since she got together with her current boyfriend (who the WHOLE family HATES). She’s tired all the time, falls asleep talking to you even standing up! I know they boyfriend used to do heroin because we found old newspaper articles about him being arrested for possession … at least 3 times that we know of. The most recent was May 2006. And he went to jail for 8 months for that one.

Today, my sister’s son asked me what methadone is. He said mom and (her boyfriend) take it. Long story short … She’s not (and never has been) in any kind of drug program. He’s not either, as far as we know. So where do they get it from? Is this something you can buy “on the street”?    Read more...

Drug Tests Methadone in the News

Drug Tests Methadone: A new debate on decriminalization in the UK
We make no comment on the relative merits of methadone and buprenorphine. It is for the individual prescriber to decide which drug is clinically indicated for each patient. However, we note that recent pharmacological advances in opioid substitution …
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Drug Tests Methadone: Prevalences and associated risk factors of HCV/HIV co-infection and HCV mono …
This study aimed to identify risk factors of HCV/HIV co-infection and HCV mono-infection, as compared with seronegativity, among injecting drug users (IDUs) at a large methadone maintenance treatment program (MMTP) in Taipei, Taiwan. Methods: Data from …
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Drug Tests Methadone in the News

Drug Tests Methadone: A new debate on decriminalization in the UK
We make no comment on the relative merits of methadone and buprenorphine. It is for the individual prescriber to decide which drug is clinically indicated for each patient. However, we note that recent pharmacological advances in opioid substitution …
Read more on Hawaii News Daily

Drug Tests Methadone: Prevalences and associated risk factors of HCV/HIV co-infection and HCV mono …
This study aimed to identify risk factors of HCV/HIV co-infection and HCV mono-infection, as compared with seronegativity, among injecting drug users (IDUs) at a large methadone maintenance treatment program (MMTP) in Taipei, Taiwan. Methods: Data from …
Read more on 7thSpace Interactive (press release)    Read more...