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Program Defends Methadone Users’ Rights – Globe and Mail

Drug Methadone: Program defends methadone users’ rights – Globe and Mail


Globe and Mail

Program defends methadone users' rights
Globe and Mail
“Methadone patients are stigmatized by their doctors and pharmacists,” said Vivienne Bessette, a community organizer for the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, or VANDU. She noted that some providers only regard patients as drug seekers and use …

Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: In Northeast Philadelphia, methadone clinics generate community opposition – Philadelphia Inquirer


Philadelphia Inquirer

In Northeast Philadelphia, methadone clinics generate community opposition
Philadelphia Inquirer
"There has been a real concerted effort to keep a methadone clinic out of that community," said Beverly Haberle, executive director of the Council of Southeast Pennsylvania, an affiliate of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. "It's …

Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: Methadone complaint support announced – 24 Hours Vancouver

Program Defends Methadone Users’ Rights – Globe and Mail

Drug Methadone: Program defends methadone users’ rights – Globe and Mail


Globe and Mail

Program defends methadone users' rights
Globe and Mail
“Methadone patients are stigmatized by their doctors and pharmacists,” said Vivienne Bessette, a community organizer for the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, or VANDU. She noted that some providers only regard patients as drug seekers and use …

Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: Methadone complaint support announced – 24 Hours Vancouver

Methadone complaint support announced
24 Hours Vancouver
Patient “rights” cards are now being distributed by the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and B.C. Association of People on Methadone, listing a help number to call and what legal rights users should expect. As of last year, 13,894 people in B.C …

Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: North East mums’ call for methadone street ban – Sunday Sun

Methadone Complaint Support Announced – 24 Hours Vancouver

Drug Methadone: Methadone complaint support announced – 24 Hours Vancouver

Methadone complaint support announced
24 Hours Vancouver
Patient “rights” cards are now being distributed by the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and B.C. Association of People on Methadone, listing a help number to call and what legal rights users should expect. As of last year, 13,894 people in B.C …

Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: North East mums’ call for methadone street ban – Sunday Sun

North East mums' call for methadone street ban
Sunday Sun
TWO mums from the North have teamed up to fight the drug which killed their children. Nicola Alderton and Sue Hunter are campaigning for methadone to be banned from our streets. They live on opposite sides of the country but both have seen their …

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Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: Addicts, researchers say new drug trumps methadone at curbing addiction – Philadelphia Inquirer

Methadone Complaint Support Announced – 24 Hours Vancouver

Drug Methadone: Methadone complaint support announced – 24 Hours Vancouver

Methadone complaint support announced
24 Hours Vancouver
Patient “rights” cards are now being distributed by the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and B.C. Association of People on Methadone, listing a help number to call and what legal rights users should expect. As of last year, 13,894 people in B.C …

Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: North East mums’ call for methadone street ban – Sunday Sun

North East mums' call for methadone street ban
Sunday Sun
TWO mums from the North have teamed up to fight the drug which killed their children. Nicola Alderton and Sue Hunter are campaigning for methadone to be banned from our streets. They live on opposite sides of the country but both have seen their …

and more »

Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: Addicts, researchers say new drug trumps methadone at curbing addiction – Philadelphia Inquirer

North East Mums’ Call for Methadone Street Ban – Sunday Sun

Drug Methadone: North East mums’ call for methadone street ban – Sunday Sun

North East mums' call for methadone street ban
Sunday Sun
TWO mums from the North have teamed up to fight the drug which killed their children. Nicola Alderton and Sue Hunter are campaigning for methadone to be banned from our streets. They live on opposite sides of the country but both have seen their …

and more »

Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: Addicts, researchers say new drug trumps methadone at curbing addiction – Philadelphia Inquirer


Philadelphia Inquirer

Addicts, researchers say new drug trumps methadone at curbing addiction
Philadelphia Inquirer
It's a prescription-only monthly dose of naltrexone, which binds to the brain's opioid receptors and blocks the effects of heroin and similar drugs. Unlike methadone and Suboxone, Vivitrol is not habit-forming and doesn't trigger withdrawal symptoms …

Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: Methadone complaint support announced – 24 Hours Vancouver

Drug Addict Numbers Dropping

Drug Methadone: Drug addict numbers dropping
THE number of drug addicts on Government-funded methadone and other replacement drugs has jumped by almost a third in five years.
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Drug Methadone: Addicts, researchers say new drug trumps methadone at curbing addiction
IT'LL BE two years Wednesday. Two years since Nicole Kapulsky ceased her daily injections of heroin and began getting monthly injections of Vivitrol, an FDA-approved medication that prevents opiate addicts from getting high.
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Drug Methadone: Methadone death parents guilty
The parents of a Derbyshire toddler who died after drinking his mother's methadone from a beaker are found guilty of manslaughter.
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Drug Methadone: Methadone beaker child 'no risk'
The parents of a Derbyshire toddler who died after drinking methadone did not think he was at risk from the drug, a court hears.
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Drug Methadone: Psychiatrists 'feed addictions of wealthy addicts' by prescribing them drugs, says sister of Hans Rausing
Psychiatrists helping to feed addictions of wealthy drug users by prescribing methadone or morphine, sister of Tetra-Pak billionaire says.
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