Posts Tagged ‘opioid abuse’

Drug Users Recruit Pensioners for Pain Medication – Newcastle Herald

Drug users recruit pensioners for pain medication – Newcastle Herald

Drug users recruit pensioners for pain medication
Newcastle Herald
Abuse had resulted in a significant jump of Hunter people entering the methadone program, traditionally used to treat heroin addiction, for prescription opioid abuse. ''Currently, about 20 per cent of people we see on the methadone program [are there

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Mututho opposes the supply of needles for addicts – The Standard Digital News


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Mututho opposes the supply of needles for addicts
The Standard Digital News
National Authority for the Campaign against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (Nacada) has been supplying drug addicts with syringes and needles to reduce the rate of HIV/Aids transmission among them. The items are distributed in a kit that contains the syringe

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Drug damages – Marietta Times

Mindfulness: New Treatment for Opioid Abuse – Decoded Science

Mindfulness: New Treatment for Opioid Abuse – Decoded Science

Mindfulness: New Treatment for Opioid Abuse
Decoded Science
Medications, such as Naltrexone, methadone and Buprenorphine are common treatments for opiate addiction, but all three treatment medications are addictive to varying degrees, plus they carry some side effects. Therefore, researchers have been testing 

Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

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