“Once You’re on [Methadone] Maintenance, They Tell You ‘You Can Be Here as Long as You Want’ “
“once you’re on [methadone] maintenance, they tell you ‘you can be here as long as you want’ “ — “when I first started methadone I was told that it would be a 30 day program” “after 30 days when you’re not ready to taper off they tell you it’s a six-mont…
Drug addicts sell treatment medication
Huangpu District People's Court has sentenced a drug addict to seven years in prison for selling the methadone he received in a public drug treatment program to other addicts, the court said Thursday. The case was one of 19 that the district court …
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Peter McVerry in favour of legalising all drugs
I prefer to use control the supply of. My model for that is methadone. “Prior to the methadone treatment protocol coming in, there was a huge amount of it on the black market. People were going to ten or twenty doctors and getting a prescription for a …
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Judge grants Cumbrian addict's wish to spend Xmas with daughter
A father battling a long-standing drug addiction who faced a possible jail term has been granted his dearest wish by a judge – the chance to spend Christmas with his teenage daughter. Title Author Copyright Description. Toggle Thumbnails. Richard …
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