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Stats Show Opiate Use Declining, Not Rising, in Vermont – Vermont Public Radio

Stats Show Opiate Use Declining, Not Rising, In Vermont – Vermont Public Radio

Stats Show Opiate Use Declining, Not Rising, In Vermont
Vermont Public Radio
Peter Shumlin's State of the State address outlining Vermont's heroin and opiate “epidemic,” addictive drug use has actually gone down over the past several years, according to state and federal data. “In Vermont since 2000, we have seen a more than

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Heroin overdoses on the rise – The Recorder

Heroin overdoses on the rise
The Recorder
lumping all drugs from heroin to cannabis together under the label of narcotics. The report does however note that “opioids, including heroin, oxycodone, morphine, codeine and methadone, continued to be the agent most associated with poisoning

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Abbotsford, BC, votes to allow harm reduction programs in the city – CTV News

Methadone Clinics Help Ukraine Succeed on HIV Prevention

Methadone Clinics Help Ukraine Succeed on HIV Prevention
Ukraine is checking the spread of HIV for the first time in more than a decade by handing out methadone and clean needles to drug users, measures long embraced in the U.S. yet still opposed in neighboring Russia.
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Abbotsford strikes down ban on harm reduction programs
Needle exchanges, methadone clinics and safe injection sites are now permitted in Abbotsford, B.C., after the city council voted last night to amend a 2005 zoning-bylaw that had forbidden them.
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Lowell methadone clinic move approved
LOWELL — Two lawsuits later and little more than six months after the city's Zoning Board of Appeals first rejected the petition of the city's lone methadone clinic to move to a new location off Stedman Street near the Lowell/Chelmsford line, the
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Methadone Clinics Help Ukraine Succeed on HIV Prevention – Bloomberg

Methadone Clinics Help Ukraine Succeed on HIV Prevention – Bloomberg

Methadone Clinics Help Ukraine Succeed on HIV Prevention
Bloomberg
Ukraine is checking the spread of HIV for the first time in more than a decade by handing out methadone and clean needles to drug users, measures long embraced in the U.S. yet still opposed in neighboring Russia. More than 8,300 people were receiving 

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BC Replacing Methadone With Stronger Drug, Methadose

BC replacing methadone with stronger drug, methadose
The new medication to treat heroin addiction arrives in February and is 10 times more powerful than methadone. Vancouver's Area Network of Drug Users says the switch may lead to overdoses.
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Proposed methadone clinic near school
Monday night, some neighbors in Waterbury are getting together to fight plans to put a methadone clinic in their neighborhood. Right now the plans are to put that clinic near an elementary school.
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B.C. government warns of super strong methadone
The B.C. government is acknowledging thousands of methadone users have an increased risk of overdosing with the pending change to a heroin-substitute formula that makes it 10 times more potent.
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Stronger Methadone Comes With Caution – Langley Times

Stronger methadone comes with caution – Langley Times

Stronger methadone comes with caution
Langley Times
Ann Livingstone of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) said she suspects the change aims to stop some pharmacies from watering down the methadone they dispense and skimming off a bit of the powdered drug to sell separately. "It can't be 

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Drug-Addicted Newborns a Growing Problem for Doctors, Health Officials

Drug-addicted newborns a growing problem for doctors, health officials
Liquid morphine is the withdrawal drug used in New Hampshire, but other hospitals treat babies with methadone, including Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vt. According to Edwards, since methadone is a longer-acting drug, it allows babies to go …
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Applicants withdraw zoning request for rehab center
The application for a zoning exception to locate an alcohol and drug treatment center on St. John's Road has been withdrawn. “It's done,” Jack … Gillespie said the center would not be another MinSec minimum security facility, nor would it handle …
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