Are We Ready to Subsidize Heroin? – Macleans.ca

Methadone Addiction: Are we ready to subsidize heroin? – Macleans.ca

Are we ready to subsidize heroin?
Macleans.ca
Studies giving pharmaceutical grade heroin to addicts in Switzerland, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands proved it was more effective than the traditional heroin replacement drug methadone in stabilizing addicts, keeping them in treatment and away from

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Methadone Addiction: An Addiction Vaccine, Tantalizingly Close – New York Times


New York Times

An Addiction Vaccine, Tantalizingly Close
New York Times
The contrast, he said, is to anti-opiates like Suboxone or methadone that are currently used to treat heroin addiction. Rather than blocking the drug's effects, they seek to replace the heroin high. Dr. Janda says he has tried and failed to make

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Methadone Addiction: Flurry at the Mersey — Hand-to-Hand Combat Over the Meaning of Addiction – Huffington Post (blog)

Flurry at the Mersey — Hand-to-Hand Combat Over the Meaning of Addiction
Huffington Post (blog)
This got us onto a discussion of how we appreciated the advantages of having methadone in our treatment arsenal; but that key methadone maintenance (MM) personnel insisted that MM was a permanent state since, they claimed, narcotic addiction was

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Methadone Addiction: State medical board restricts license of Dr. Jeffrey Solinas – San Jose Mercury News

State medical board restricts license of Dr. Jeffrey Solinas
San Jose Mercury News
includes methadone, morphine and oxycodone. The prohibition also applies to Schedule III controlled substances, which includes amphetamines and some barbiturates, with an exception that Solinas may prescribe buprenorphine to treat opiate addiction.

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