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Drug Methadone: Is Ireland Failing Its Heroin Addicts?

Drug Methadone: Is Ireland failing its heroin addicts?
The number of heroin users in Ireland is the highest in the EU while deaths of people on methadone programmes increasing. In the first of a two-part series on Ireland’s heroin problem, we ask how addicts are being treated here, writesBRIAN O’CONNELL
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Drug Methadone: Cannabis mouth spray may help addicts quit
SMOKERS have nicotine patches and heroin users have methadone but cannabis users have little choice except to go ”cold turkey” if they want to kick their habit.
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Is Ireland Failing Its Heroin Addicts? – Irish Times

Drug Abuse Methadone: Is Ireland failing its heroin addicts? – Irish Times


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Is Ireland failing its heroin addicts?
Irish Times
Some could argue cynically that methadone is more of a holding exercise.” But what then are the alternatives? In the 1980s and 1990s, one of our European fiscal colleagues, Portugal, had a big problem with drugs-related HIV and heroin use.

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Study into cannabis withdrawal drug
HealthCanal.com
“There is currently no targeted drug available to assist with cannabis withdrawal. Tobacco smokers have nicotine replacement therapies to assist them when they stop cigarette smoking and opiate users have synthetic opioids like methadone.
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Eastern Iowa heroin use up – Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier

Heroin Still Has Grip on Greater Taunton, All of Eastern Mass. – Abington Mariner

Alcoholism Methadone: Heroin still has grip on Greater Taunton, all of Eastern Mass. – Abington Mariner
For example, Abington, a town of fewer than 16,000 people, had 616 admissions to state-funded drug or alcohol treatment programs during the year. More than 54 percent – 332 – of those people said they had used heroin in the past year, while about 48 …
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Alcoholism Methadone: Heroin, painkillers dominate state’s drug problems – MetroWest Daily News
“We know and we’ve been saying for years we have an epidemic here in Massachusetts around heroin,” said Vic DiGravio, president and CEO of the Association of Behavioral Healthcare, which represents drug and alcohol treatment providers in the state.
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Alcoholism Methadone: Reports: Struggle continues with heroin, prescription drugs – Abington Mariner
“We know and we’ve been saying for years we have an epidemic here in Massachusetts around heroin,” said Vic DiGravio, president and CEO of the Association of Behavioral Healthcare, which represents drug and alcohol treatment providers.
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Heroin a Continuing Crisis in Arlington, Region – Abington Mariner

Methadone Detox: Heroin a continuing crisis in Arlington, region – Abington Mariner
Treatment includes a psychological evaluation, and patients can be referred to a detox unit. For doctors, Setnik said, the biggest challenge posed by the level of heroin and painkiller abuse in the area is convincing addicts that “there is a life beyond …
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Methadone Detox: St. Charles hotel beating suspect wants his police statements disallowed – Arlington Heights Daily Herald
James Cooper, 28, of Elburn, contends he didn’t understand his Miranda Rights and was suffering from heroin withdrawal when police questioned him. Meanwhile, the girl’s mother, Cathleen Koch, 29, of Plano, is set to stand trial in March.
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Methadone Detox: Tricare soon may cover substance treatments – Army Times
Like methadone, Suboxone, a combination of buprenorphine and naloxone, helps eliminate the physical symptoms, like nausea and tremors, as well as the cravings of narcotics withdrawal. It has been studied by DoD and is viewed by many addiction …
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Methadone Detox: One Last Piece of Mail at Las Colinas – San Diego weekly Reader
An autopsy determined that Lopez had died of respiratory failure due to heroin withdrawal. A toxicology report showed Lopez had amphetamines, methadone, methamphetamine, opiates, and cannabinoids in her system. She also had hepatitis C.
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Father Took Heroin After Friend’s Death – Stoke & Staffordshire

Drug Methadone: Father took heroin after friend’s death – Stoke & Staffordshire

Father took heroin after friend's death
Stoke & Staffordshire
A FORMER drug user died the day after he acted as pall bearer at a friend's funeral. Gary Bennett, aged 40, who was known to his friends as Squawk, had taken heroin and methadone, his inquest was told. The father-of-one, from Pinnock Street, Tunstall,

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Drug Methadone: Police hit drug mall but it’s no quick fix at Liverpool – The Daily Telegraph

Police hit drug mall but it's no quick fix at Liverpool
The Daily Telegraph
said drug users were committing other crimes in the area. "We suddenly got hundreds of extra people coming to Liverpool to get their quick fix," Mr Hunt said. "And [with that] you get crime." He blamed the closure of a methadone clinic in Fairfield

Father Took Heroin After Friend’s Death – This Is Sentinel

Drug Methadone: Father took heroin after friend’s death – This is Sentinel
A FORMER drug user died the day after he acted as pall bearer at a friend’s funeral. Gary Bennett, aged 40, who was known to his friends as Squawk, had taken heroin and methadone, his inquest was told. The father-of-one, from Pinnock Street, Tunstall …
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Drug Methadone: Washington Drug Board Warns Of Methadone Risks – KHQ Right Now
SEATTLE (AP) – A Washington state drug board has decided to warn pharmacies about the risk of overdose deaths from prescribing methadone as a painkiller. The Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee voted Wednesday to send a health advisory next week to more …
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