Methadone Uses

N. Kentucky a testing ground for overdose antidote [online extra]
A dozen volunteers, including one doctor, practiced Saturday morning how to greet and treat addicts at high risk of relapsing on heroin and hand them a kit containing a drug that could save their lives if they fall into an overdose. Kentucky's first … Read more on The Courier-Journal

Doctors in British Columbia Are Now Allowed To Prescribe Heroin
Statistics are hard to come by, but in 2008, a former user described use of the drug in the province as an "epidemic," and a 2010 BBC story called Vancouver, the province's largest city, the "Drug Central of North America. … The results, published in … Read more on Motherboard (blog)