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Russia’s Cold Turkey Fails to Stem HIV Among Drug Users
Russia’s Cold Turkey Fails to Stem HIV Among Drug Users
Yekaterinburg, the Siberian city where drug users used to be handcuffed to their beds to help them quit, exemplifies Russia’s efforts to stamp out the habit in a nation that has the most HIV-infected addicts.
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Coroner: Another Quad City baby died from methadone exposure, no charges
Two babies in the Quad Cities have died from exposure to methadone in the past 16 months, but criminal charges…
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Woman sentenced in drug induced homicide
Debra K. Nelson, 43, of Granite City, was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison. She had pleaded guilty in November to charges of drug induced homicide related to the December 2012 death of 20-year-o
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Heroin and Pill Abuse Stir a Battle Cry in Vermont – News 12 Westchester
Heroin and pill abuse stir a battle cry in Vermont – News 12 Westchester
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Heroin and pill abuse stir a battle cry in Vermont
News 12 Westchester Many prescription painkillers belong to a class of drugs known as opioids, which also includes heroin, codeine and methadone. Many states are reporting increasing heroin problems as an unintended byproduct of efforts to crack down on painkiller abuse … Stats Show Opiate Use Declining, Not Rising, In Vermont |
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Stronger methadone comes with caution – Surrey Leader
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Stronger methadone comes with caution
Surrey Leader 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 … |
Methadone Clinics Help Ukraine Succeed Where Russia Fails on HIV – Businessweek
Methadone Clinics Help Ukraine Succeed Where Russia Fails on HIV – Businessweek
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Methadone Clinics Help Ukraine Succeed Where Russia Fails on HIV
Businessweek 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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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
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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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