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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
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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Magistrate urges heroin addict to conquer his demons
A magistrate took the unusual step of urging a serial drug addict and shoplifter to conquer his addictions so he can lead a normal life.
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BC replacing methadone with stronger drug, methadose
The new medication to treat heroin addiction arrives in February and is 10 times more powerful than methadone. Vancouver's Area Network of Drug Users says the switch may lead to overdoses.
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Proposed methadone clinic near school
Monday night, some neighbors in Waterbury are getting together to fight plans to put a methadone clinic in their neighborhood. Right now the plans are to put that clinic near an elementary school.
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B.C. government warns of super strong methadone
The B.C. government is acknowledging thousands of methadone users have an increased risk of overdosing with the pending change to a heroin-substitute formula that makes it 10 times more potent.
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Russian HIV Surge Shows Scourge Sochi Games’ Swagger Can’t Mask
On a chilly September evening in Novogireyevo, a Moscow suburb of concrete apartment blocks about 16 kilometers east of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin compound, a young woman in an orange hoodie approaches Sasha Mazay with an offer that might save his life.
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Magistrate urges heroin addict to conquer his demons
A magistrate took the unusual step of urging a serial drug addict and shoplifter to conquer his addictions so he can lead a normal life. Annie Dimmock, chair of the bench at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court, spoke passionately to defendant Piers Hansen, 32, as he stood in the dock on Wednesday (January 9) before handing him a suspended sentence.
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Rethinking Thailands war on methamphetamines
Despite an aggressive crackdown on drugs, Thailand's fight against methamphetamines is failing, activists say. With supply and demand rising, these highly addictive substances, commonly known as meth, are now the drug of choice.
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Stronger methadone comes with caution
B.C. is changing the formula of methadone that's prescribed for recovering heroin addicts.
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