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Methadone Treatment: Few Treatment Options for Afghans as Drug Use Rises – New York Times

Methadone Treatment: Few Treatment Options for Afghans as Drug Use Rises – New York Times


New York Times

Few Treatment Options for Afghans as Drug Use Rises
New York Times
Methadone is typically given in syrup form here. However, officials at the Ministry of Counternarcotics are leery of it because the opiate substitutes do not cure addiction. “It is the view in Afghanistan, it is just substituting one addiction for

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Patient and Clinician’s Ratings of Improvement in Methadone-Maintained … – 7thSpace Interactive (Press Release)

Methadone Treatment: Patient and clinician’s ratings of improvement in methadone-maintained … – 7thSpace Interactive (press release)

Patient and clinician's ratings of improvement in methadone-maintained
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
In the last few years there seems to be an emerging interest for including the patients'perspective in assessing methadone maintenance treatment (MMT), with treatment satisfaction surveys being the most commonly-used method of incorporating this point

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Methadone Treatment: Methadone Man and Bupe Babe Fight HIV – TheFix.com

Methadone Treatment: Methadone Man and Bupe Babe Fight HIV – TheFix.com


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Methadone Man and Bupe Babe Fight HIV
TheFix.com
Methadone treatment was recently initiated in countries including Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Morocco, Cambodia and Bangladesh. In some countries that do have MAT programs, like Georgia, Kyrgyszstan and Indonesia, IV addicts face prohibitively long

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Methadone Treatment: America’s War on Drugs: 40 Years, a Trillion Dollars, and Debatable Results – Crosscurrents From KALW News

Methadone Treatment: America’s war on drugs: 40 years, a trillion dollars, and debatable results – Crosscurrents from KALW News

America's war on drugs: 40 years, a trillion dollars, and debatable results
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By the early '70s, methadone treatment was gaining popularity. The idea was to give heroin users a way to regulate their addiction by giving them a low dose of a controlled long-acting cousin to heroin, so they could stop shooting up and break the

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Methadone Treatment: Warning Over Painkiller Addiction – NHS Choices

Methadone Treatment: Warning over painkiller addiction – NHS Choices

Warning over painkiller addiction
NHS Choices
Requiring physicians and patients to register the prescription of methadone for the treatment of addiction so that prescribing habits can be tracked and drug-seeking behaviour can be detected. Developing electronic databases that provide information on

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Methadone Treatment: Drug Used to Kick Heroin Abuse Is Just as Addictive – Prague Post

Methadone Treatment: Drug used to kick heroin abuse is just as addictive – Prague Post


Prague Post

Drug used to kick heroin abuse is just as addictive
Prague Post
Methadone treatment centers fall under the Health Ministry budget. However, Subutex users who seek treatment are on their own, and supportive programs for outpatients are the responsibility of NGOs, which have to pay for their own doctors and equipment

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