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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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Our Insane Health-Care System: Free Health Care in Prison, Nothing Afterward – Washington Post (Blog)

Our insane health-care system: free health care in prison, nothing afterward – Washington Post (blog)


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Our insane health-care system: free health care in prison, nothing afterward
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One of the first people I met at Yale was Dr. Frederick Altice, who provided care to HIV-infected prisoners and drug users at the community health-care van, a needle-exchange-based health service targeting street drug users. …. disorder such as

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Our Insane Health-Care System: Free Health Care in Prison, Nothing Afterward – Washington Post (Blog)

Our insane health-care system: free health care in prison, nothing afterward – Washington Post (blog)


Washington Post (blog)

Our insane health-care system: free health care in prison, nothing afterward
Washington Post (blog)
One of the first people I met at Yale was Dr. Frederick Altice, who provided care to HIV-infected prisoners and drug users at the community health-care van, a needle-exchange-based health service targeting street drug users. …. disorder such as

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Lost Boy: The death of Darcy Allan Sheppard – Toronto Star

Lost Boy: The death of Darcy Allan Sheppard
Toronto Star
I understood that this was to be the first of many interviews Bryant was to give upon the release of a book he had written, 28 Seconds: A True Story of Addiction, Tragedy, and Hope. In telling and selling his story, Bryant was telling a part of