Posts Tagged ‘harm reduction’
Drug Methadone: MDC Shutting Down Methadone Program
Drug Methadone: MDC shutting down methadone program
Inmates with heroin addictions will soon have to find a way to quit without the help of a powerful medication at the Metropolitan Detention Center. Jail officials said they are cutting their methadone treatment program, citing a lack of success with it. Methadone is a prescription drug that helps heroin and other opiod addicts slowly curb their cravings. "It doesn't bring a lot of value as far …
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Drug Methadone: Wider Availability of Methadone Helps Curb HIV in Vietnam
Treatment for intravenous drug users in Vietnam remains a very sensitive subject, but the expansion of methadone treatment has been welcomed by HIV clinicians. In 2002 international donors warned that rapidly rising numbers of HIV/AIDS cases could threaten Vietnam’s economic development. A decade later aid groups are praising the country for expanding harm reduction policies, at least in the …
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Drug Methadone: Methadone ‘stranding’ drug users, insist critics
THE USE of the heroin substitute methadone to help addicts kick their habit has come under attack with a warning that many drug users are being left “stranded in the system”.
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Wider Availability of Methadone Helps Curb HIV in Vietnam
Drug Methadone: Wider Availability of Methadone Helps Curb HIV in Vietnam
Treatment for intravenous drug users in Vietnam remains a very sensitive subject, but the expansion of methadone treatment has been welcomed by HIV clinicians. In 2002 international donors warned that rapidly rising numbers of HIV/AIDS cases could threaten Vietnam’s economic development. A decade later aid groups are praising the country for expanding harm reduction policies, at least in the …
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Drug Methadone: HIV Soars Among Greece’s Drug Users While Programs Cut
HIV infections among drug users in Greece jumped more than 20-fold in fewer than two years, fueled by a lack of needle exchange and methadone programs, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
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Drug Methadone: Prescription for crime? Chemists defend methadone policy
Prescription for crime? Chemists defend methadone policy PHARMACISTS insist they are right to dish out methadone in the city centre, after the policy was questioned by senior police officers.
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Drug Methadone: Call for debate on methadone
SENIOR police officers have called for a debate on whether methadone should be dispensed in city-centre pharmacies.
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Former Addict Says Methadone a ‘Bad Drug’ – CBC.ca
Drug Methadone: Former addict says methadone a ‘bad drug’ – CBC.ca
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Former addict says methadone a 'bad drug'
CBC.ca A First Nation in Northern Ontario wants to break its methadone habit, but government policies are keeping it hooked on a harm reduction strategy that may be more curse than cure, according to the chief. Roger Wesley said 125 people in Constance Lake … |
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Drug Methadone: Methadone Linked to Drop in HIV Rates Among Injection Drug Users – AIDSmeds.com HIV/AIDS Treatment News
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Methadone Linked to Drop in HIV Rates Among Injection Drug Users
AIDSmeds.com HIV/AIDS Treatment News A major research review has found that injection drug users (IDUs) on methadone treatment are 54 percent less likely to contract HIV, according to a study published in the online edition of the British journal BMJ and reported in The New York Times. |
Doctor Could Face Sanctions Over Methadone Accusations – DesMoinesRegister.com
Drug Methadone: Doctor could face sanctions over methadone accusations – DesMoinesRegister.com
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Doctor could face sanctions over methadone accusations
DesMoinesRegister.com The board said Lamp, 65, continued to prescribe methadone to three patients with known histories of drug abuse even after state regulators warned him in June 2011 that he was violating the law. Regulators had learned of the situation when a licensed … |
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Drug Methadone: Former addict says methadone a ‘bad drug’ – CBC.ca
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Former addict says methadone a 'bad drug'
CBC.ca A First Nation in Northern Ontario wants to break its methadone habit, but government policies are keeping it hooked on a harm reduction strategy that may be more curse than cure, according to the chief. Roger Wesley said 125 people in Constance Lake … |
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Drug Methadone: Pharmacists to press Jenny Marra for ‘methadone millionaires’ apology – The Courier
Drug Methadone: Pharmacists to Press Jenny Marra for ‘Methadone Millionaires’ Apology – the Courier
Drug Methadone: Pharmacists to press Jenny Marra for ‘methadone millionaires’ apology – The Courier
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Pharmacists to press Jenny Marra for 'methadone millionaires' apology
The Courier Mr Brotchie added pharmacists thought each drug user should have treatment tailored to them as an individual but that methadone had a ''great track record'' in helping people with problems. Ms Marra said she wanted today's meeting to be ''productive … Labour MSP to be challenged on accusations that 'methadone millionaire … |
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Drug Methadone: Police bust alleged drug ring in Doonside, Blacktown and Lalor Park – Blacktown Advocate
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Police bust alleged drug ring in Doonside, Blacktown and Lalor Park
Blacktown Advocate Blacktown police searched residences in Blacktown, Lalor Park and Doonside, arresting three men aged 29, 27 and 64, and two women aged, 52 and 23. All five people were charged with supplying prohibited drugs (heroin, cannabis and methadone). |
Drug Methadone: Quick Thinking Leads to Arrest on Drug Charges – Alamogordo Daily News
Drug Methadone: Quick thinking leads to arrest on drug charges – Alamogordo Daily News
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Quick thinking leads to arrest on drug charges
Alamogordo Daily News He said Tave is also charged with one count of trafficking methamphetamine with intent to distribute, one count of possession of dangerous drugs (methadone and oxycodone pills), possession of drug paraphernalia and civil possession of forfeitable … |
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Drug Methadone: More drugs seized by police in Hull – This is Hull and East Riding
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More drugs seized by police in Hull
This is Hull and East Riding Drugs including cocaine, heroin and methadone have been discovered in 3,196 seizures between last year and this. ?. 'Work to be done' Chief Inspector Dave Houchin, of Humberside Police. Picture: Peter Harbour. New figures released this week show drug … |