Posts Tagged ‘harm reduction’
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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Abbotsford Gives Green Light to Needle Exchanges
Abbotsford gives green light to needle exchanges
Councillors in Abbotsford have voted to repeal a bylaw that banned needle exchanges, methadone clinics and other harm reduction techniques. Mayor Bruce Banman says this is a good move for the city.
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Abbotsford Gives Green Light to Needle Exchanges – News1130
Abbotsford gives green light to needle exchanges – News1130
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Abbotsford gives green light to needle exchanges
News1130 ABBOTSFORD (NEWS1130) – Councillors in Abbotsford have voted to repeal a bylaw that banned needle exchanges, methadone clinics and other harm reduction techniques. Last night's vote, giving second and third readings to amending the 2005 bylaw is … |
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Program Sounds Warning on Area Drug Addiction – Athens NEWS
Program sounds warning on area drug addiction – Athens NEWS
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Program sounds warning on area drug addiction
Athens NEWS Medical-assisted treatment for opiate addicts, he said, involves controlled use of drugs such as Suboxone, Subutex, Vivitrol (available from three local providers) and methadone (available through referral from Jackson County). "We can find ways to … |
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Drug dealer concealed heroin on police raid – Lancashire Evening Post
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Drug dealer concealed heroin on police raid
Lancashire Evening Post Preston Crown Court heard Eve has a 20-year drug addiction and a number of health problems. … The court heard Eve has stopped taking heroin and has also stopped taking methadone after she was hospitalised with a chest infection in October. |
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Rethinking Thailand’s war on methamphetamines – Gant Daily
Individuals, Teens Tarted in $32 Million Heroin Treatment Package – Cincinnati.com
Individuals, teens tarted in million heroin treatment package – Cincinnati.com
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Individuals, teens tarted in $ 32 million heroin treatment package
Cincinnati.com Kalfas said use of drugs such as methadone or Suboxone, combined with counseling and other services, provides the best long-term results for people with heroin addiction. “There is strong evidence that medicine-assisted treatment has a greater bang for … |
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Surrey has an opportunity to embrace harm reduction and reduce street disorder – Straight.com
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Surrey has an opportunity to embrace harm reduction and reduce street disorder
Straight.com Communities like Newton are paying the price for the reluctance of the RCMP and suburban municipal politicians to acknowledge the reality that people will continue using drugs with or without supervised-injection sites, methadone-maintenance facilities … |
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Jail Methadone Program Shows Mixed Results – ABQ Journal
Jail methadone program shows mixed results – ABQ Journal
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Jail methadone program shows mixed results
ABQ Journal The decision caused an uproar among “harm reduction” advocates, drug policy activists and doctors who saw the program as a way to make addicts more receptive to treatment and as a way to prevent drug-related crime. And they warned that safely weaning … |
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