| He thought he could carry on if he was addicted to methadone rather than heroin. |
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| The alternative treatment for heroin addiction is the drug methadone which is taken in tablet form. |
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| However, women who are dependent on opioids do better with methadone than with no treatment. |
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| A study by Ray Byrne of Dublin Institute of Technology found that only 6 to 10 per cent of addicts on methadone programmes detoxify successfully. |
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| When I heard about it I assumed the narcs had taken him to the methadone clinic on North Avenue. |
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| Initially, a drug abuser is prescribed slowly increasing amounts of methadone to increase tolerance to the drug. |
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| She had always worked, mostly in shops, but was by then on huge amounts of methadone, nitrazepam, amitriptyline, diazepam and temazepam. |
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| Side effects such as sedation and respiratory depression are increased when methadone is combined with alcohol or other drugs. |
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| A concurrent sentence of 12 months imprisonment for the possession of methadone did not form the subject of any appeal, and was left unaltered. |
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| She was a heroin addict and used amphetamines, but had started a methadone programme when she learned she was pregnant. |
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| For example, because alcohol, barbiturates and sedative-hypnotics accelerate methadone metabolism, they foster withdrawal symptoms. |
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| For many recreational users, prescription methadone doesn't carry the same stigma as the typical street drug. |
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| People will end up using street drugs on top of methadone or drinking just to get to sleep. |
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| The chemists targeted provide the heroin substitute methadone to addicts under the Methadone Treatment Scheme. |
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| A legal opiate analog such as methadone may be substituted for the abused opiate, with the methadone dosage then slowly reduced. |
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| When combined with naloxone, sublingual buprenorphine is as effective as methadone, but has much less abuse or diversion potential. |
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| I could be running out of the hospital now to peddle pharmacy-fresh methadone to junkies on the street. |
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| As a result, pharmaceutical companies have produced alternative opioids such as oxycodone, hydromorphone, fentanyl, methadone, and tramadol. |
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| Narcotics such as morphine, meperidine, fentanyl, and methadone typically cause mild arterial hypercapnia in clinically recommended doses. |
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| There were traces of diamorphine on some scales and a bottle of methadone which had been prescribed to someone else. |
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| He goes on to call geoengineering ' planetary methadone ', with dangerous potential side-effects. |
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| When he got caught taking other drugs they would increase his methadone script so that he didn't need any other drugs. |
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| Because addicts who are sent to the drug court go on a methadone programme immediately, critics say criminals are jumping the queue. |
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| The project, the first of its kind in the York area, aims to help addicts of heroin and other opiate drugs such as methadone. |
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| By then she'd got herself a job and a house, but her doctor threw her off the methadone course and she ended up back on drugs. |
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| Many people who go on methadone programmes, the softer alternative to abstinence, remain on them for years. |
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| Entry into methadone detoxification was predicted by a higher frequency of drug injecting. |
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| We're talking about benzodiazepines such as Valium, Normison and methadone syrup. |
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| But I could see from her eyes she was away with the fairies, courtesy of smack, methadone, or maybe some indiscriminate bottle of tranquillizers. |
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| One of the key components of programmes designed to get users off drugs is the heroin substitute, methadone. |
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| He said she was prescribed such large amounts of the heroin substitute methadone that she could stockpile it. |
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| At-home transition to methadone can be safe even in older patients if follow-up is closely monitored. |
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| The Scottish executive has substantially widened access to methadone as a substitute for heroin addicts. |
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| The doctor was concerned about this, because the friend was also a heroin addict and was using methadone for his own treatment. |
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| Its unique pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics make methadone a valuable option, but physicians should be aware of possible side effects. |
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| Where I was brought up, heroin and methadone was the big problem from age sixteen. |
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| You can be given scripts for methadone and other treatments, but this is just to keep the crime figures down. |
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| After 12 months, the researchers intend to shift the addicts to methadone or abstinence. |
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| Drug workers stress that methadone is just one option for treatment that is appropriate only in certain cases. |
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| I was born a junky, weaned off heroin using methadone in the first weeks of my life. |
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| Among the treatments offered are prescriptions for the heroin substitute methadone and structured courses of day care. |
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| For the past eight years, Moira's been on methadone, a drug most imagine only junkies use to get off heroin. |
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| Most people know of methadone only as the drug used to withdraw heroin addicts. |
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| She hopes the course in methadone, a heroin substitute, will help her get her life back together. |
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| Only this week I have had ketamine and methadone, both controlled drugs that merit an article themselves. |
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| But whereas heroin can be replaced with methadone, no drug has been found to substitute for cocaine. |
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| Waiting lists for methadone programmes, rehab and detox services are phenomenally long. |
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| We examined data on all NHS methadone prescriptions dispensed by community pharmacists in England. |
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| Maintenance of addicts on methadone reduces the incidence of fatal and non-fatal heroin overdoses. |
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| By this time his mother was on methadone, trying to come off drugs. |
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| After assessment, clients are usually offered two options: methadone detoxification or maintenance. |
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| I went and copped some dope, then got on a methadone program. |
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| This immediately disbarred him from continuing on his methadone programme. |
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| You can die by taking street methadone by itself-but it is especially dangerous to take it with other opioids, alcohol or tranquillizers. |
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| However, this leaves the methadone client who wants to rid him or herself of the addiction to methadone with nowhere to turn. |
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| Narcotics or opiates that may be abused include codeine, heroin, hydromorphone, meperidine, methadone, morphine, opium, paregoric, and others. |
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| Provision of methadone is carried out by auxiliary medical services staff members who are volunteers and are paid an honorarium. |
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| These were followed by methadone, then amphetamines and methamphetamines. |
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| Prisoners are also subject to frisk searches during the dispensing process to ensure that the methadone is not diverted to an illicit market. |
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| It does in fact deliver not so much the methadone as the cold-turkey treatment for any modern swain tempted to act the fool for love. |
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| The main goal of methadone treatment is to prevent physical withdrawal and help you to feel more stable, energetic and clear-headed. |
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| Government will respond to this need by developing an organized methadone maintenance service targeted at opiate addicts. |
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| The most common types of prescription drugs abused by young adults are pain relievers, which include codeine, methadone, meperidine, percocet, hydrocodone, and oxycodone. |
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| At issue are the circumstances surrounding the lethal dose of methadone given, an illegal 80 mg dosage. |
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| It costs much the same as methadone maintenance, and considerably less than a therapeutic community or in-patient detoxification. |
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| We have also developed an educational workshop for the use of methadone as an analgesic. |
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| Copay charges are waived for NBPDP beneficiaries who have a Special Authorization approval to receive methadone for opioid dependence. |
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| Most benefits demonstrated for methadone detoxification and maintenance in the community are likely to be generalisable to prisons. |
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| If the dosage is sufficiently high, a single daily dose suffices for the methadone to bind stably to the endorphin receptors in the brain. |
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| This sounds remotely like a Bushism, in that clinical research shows that methadone maintenance plus counselling outperforms abstinence. |
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| They cross-referenced databases and proved a correlation between poverty and deaths linked to methadone. |
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| There are some who would suggest that the methadone maintenance program prolongs harm. |
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| Some addicts become as reliant on methadone as they were on heroin. |
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| It raises a significant policy, procedural, program, and community argument about positive cocaine urinalysis while on methadone. |
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| Mr Blunkett's new scheme offers a variety of treatments, ranging from methadone to support groups and aromatherapy. |
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| Of those who drop out, two-thirds move on either to methadone, a widely used heroin substitute, or to abstinence. |
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| One of the oldest of the risk reduction methods is controlled use of methadone tablets as a substitute for injected heroin. |
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| In terms of the outcomes of the value of methadone maintenance, the other parts of it are well listed in the literature. |
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| For the first time, this year the cost of the methadone maintenance programme is now covered under our universal coverage scheme. |
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| As a result, many prison systems have had to revisit their policies and programs regarding methadone provision. |
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| The country has over 2 000 centres for the treatment of drug addicts and the distribution of methadone. |
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| The criteria for drug addiction were a daily use of heroine, cocaine, methadone or a combination of these. |
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| We could talk about the need for methadone programs in New Brunswick as well. |
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| Opioids such as methadone and buprenorphine are used to treat addiction to other opioids, such as heroin. |
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| An exploratory mission will take place in Chengdu on the access to and quality of methadone substitution programmes. |
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| The research also showed that once the patients stabilized on methadone, there was a decrease in their cannabis use. |
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| Francisco insisted at the meeting that Shawn herself must have taken the methadone. |
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| This prisoner has been placed on methadone, the morphine substitute drug. |
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| The three main types of medication for opiate withdrawal and recovery are methadone, buphrenorphine, and naltrexone. |
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| I went through a methadone program and it helped, but then you get hooked on that. |
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| A doctor at Raleigh General Hospital says that half of the babies in the nursery are on methadone. |
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| Meanwhile, doctors warned Rebecca that if she weaned herself from methadone too quickly, she might relapse. |
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| Upon his arrest, the actor admitted to detectives that he had been using heroin and methadone. |
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| Among the top 10 prescription drugs listed on death certificates, methadone is chief among them. |
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| We examined the proportion of methadone prescriptions per year issued as oral syrup, tablets, or injectable ampoules to identify any change of professional practice. |
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| As the entire public health care system in Poland is notoriously underfinanced, the rather costly methadone maintenance does not constitute a priority concern. |
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| If appropriate dosages of a tricyclic antidepressant or gabapentin do not provide adequate relief, strong opioids such as oxycodone, morphine, or methadone may be required. |
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| Over six weeks he gradually reduced his intake of the new drug to nil, and then went through cold turkey as he experienced the symptoms of methadone withdrawal. |
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| Methadone treatment is not getting a scrip and going to get methadone. |
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| While many people will have little sympathy with junkies the methadone programme is a vital tool to stabilise drug users. |
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| It bans methadone, a drug taken orally which most countries with enough money give to heroin addicts to stop them overdosing and to prevent diseases spreading via shared needles. |
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| Heroin addicts in Western countries usually have access to clean needles, substitutes such as methadone and, in parts of Europe, heroin prescriptions. |
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| At the same time, the AFM operates one of the two methadone clinics in Winnipeg, which is one of the most characteristic harm reduction strategies. |
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| The policy allows for the reimbursement by NBPDP of carry doses of methadone in the treatment of opioid dependence for NBPDP beneficiaries who meet the Methadone Maintenance Treatment Clinic criteria for carries. |
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| Role of hepatic and intestinal cytochrome P450 3A and 2B6 in the metabolism, disposition, and miotic effects of methadone. |
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| In fact, for some people the withdrawal symptoms from methadone may be worse and more difficult to manage than the withdrawal symptoms from heroin. |
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| There are economic benefits to society, the criminal activity associated with getting the drug is then waylaid a bit, and there are huge pregnancy outcome benefits to methadone as well. |
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| These include increased availability of MMT clinics, more licensed methadone providers, and an increased number of initiations in the provincial system. |
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| I was initially on two 140mg injections of diamorphine a day and up to 100ml of methadone linctus, whereas now I am only injecting 80mg once a day but still take 80ml of linctus. |
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| In the absence of such incentives, opioid dependent inmates showed a preference for agonist treatment including methadone maintenance and buprenorphine maintenance. |
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| The Dräger Alcotest 6810 med, therefore, meets all the requirements for use in surgical operations, in the emergency room and for methadone substitution therapy. |
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| The Central Criminal Court heard Finlay was a recovering heroin addict, and was on methadone and valium. |
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| The inmate had been on a methadone maintenance program for seven years. |
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| A methadone clinic is capable of testing a person immediately. |
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| The role of antabuse, naltrexone, Campral, methadone, and buprenorphine is also discussed in this chapter. |
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| Dose-normalized C max for both methadone enantiomers, buprenorphine and norbuprenorphine, were within the no-effect range. |
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| There are many kinds of rehabilitation treatment, including pharmacologically based treatments with naltrexone, methadone, or ibogaine. |
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| But methadone hits the bloodstream within a half-hour of oral ingestion. |
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| Stabilised on methadone, I became nearly unemployable by polite society: a shiftless, untrustworthy coke-sniffer, sneak thief and corner-cutting hack, toiling in the culinary backwaters. |
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| Deaths linked to opiod analgesics such as methadone and oxycodone have skyrocketed in recent years, according to an October AJPH study. |
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| Requests will be considered from New Brunswick physicians authorized to prescribe methadone for the treatment of severe cancer-related or chronic non-malignant pain. |
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| Patients are sometimes forced to make long and expensive journeys across Kiev. Moreover, without the prospect of proper rehabilitation, methadone can be a life sentence. |
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| He had high levels of morphine, cocaine, methadone and anti-depressant venlafaxine in his system, which together would have caused his death. |
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| Jay died of a methadone overdose three years after his suicide attempt. |
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| The number of people entering drug-free treatment and resocialization programs in Amsterdam has more than doubled since the introduction of the methadone buses and the needle exchange schemes. |
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| Before I was on methadone I had to run around all day until I got my fix. |
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| Thus, there are some carefully circumscribed situations in which practitioners can prescribe narcotics, including opiates, but methadone is the only opioid currently permitted for long-term treatment of drug users in Canada. |
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| The purpose of the study was to examine the value of prescribing methadone for withdrawal management or short-term detoxification in persons who were dependent on opiates. |
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| So I'm hoping that neither Cindy nor I have ever left a message here in any way that methadone maintenance treatment is simply a pharmacological substitution. |
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| When methadone is taken as prescribed, it is very safe and will not cause any damage to internal organs or thinking, even when taken daily for many years. |
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| For example, didanosine and stavudine concentrations drop to subtherapeutic levels when these drugs are taken with methadone. |
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| Subjects must be at least 25 years old, with an opiate dependence of at least five years, a one-year injection history, and a treatment history of methadone maintenance at least twice in their past. |
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| It would take a treatise to explain the political and philosophic history underlying the severity of standards which must be met by Ontario methadone patients. |
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| The potential good news is that once again we can manage our opiate problem with methadone and a newer, related drug, Suboxone. |
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| The letter stated that this particular facility in California does not use Suboxone, Subutex or methadone for detox. |
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| In this program we'd also want to know if methadone patients are multi-doctoring and getting other psychoactive medications from other physicians. |
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| To strengthen prevention among injecting drug users, a methadone maintenance programme focused on harm reduction is available throughout the country. |
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| His clinical research has been primarily in the area of delirium, the use of methadone and equianalgesic dosing ratios of opioids, and spiritual care. |
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| No matter how outlandish the arguments advanced against methadone, few people are willing to risk criminal sanction for pointing out inaccuracies in these arguments. |
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| But the interest developed as the reprobate was brought in for questioning – he vulnerable, if infuriating, the officers solicitous, wearily patient, checking whether he'd eaten and had his methadone. |
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| Statistics show that legal substances, including alcohol and tranquilisers, along with methadone and antidepressants, are all involved in most drug deaths. |
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| At the ARC, projects included the formulation of nonaddictive analgesics, and the formative stages of research on methadone and narcotics maintenance. |
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| Omid Shirazi, 37, of Harnall Lane West, Foleshill, admitted having offensive weapons, namely a pair of nunchakus and an air pistol, in public, and possessing methadone. |
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| The other group specified includes licenced medicines clonazepam, diazepam, lorazepam, oxazepam, temazepam, morphine, methadone and the unlicensed drug flunitrazepam. |
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| For example, chapter 2 covers amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cocaine, marijuana, opiates, methadone, porpoxyphene, phencyclidine, methaqualone and gluthethimide. |
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| At present, only doctors and 600 ambulance paramedics are allowed to administer Naloxone, which can rapidly reverse the effects of heroin or methadone. |
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| In the new Internet addiction study, she reported on 177 unselected patients from a Las Vegas methadone maintenance clinic and 71 others from a similar clinic in Tel Aviv. |
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| Synthesized drugs created with an opium base for use in pain management are fentanyl, oxycodone, tramadol, demarol, hydrocodone, methadone, and hydromorphone. |
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| The drug Suboxone has quickly become more popular than the better-known option, methadone, which works by mimicking a weaker version of the euphoria of heroin. |
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| Provide an option for screening first for urine creatinine and then for a panel that includes barbiturates, benzodiazepines, methadone, PCP and propoxyphene. |
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| Because it is an acyclic analog of morphine or heroin, methadone acts on the same opioid receptors as these drugs, and thus has many of the same effects. |
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| The designed aptasensor does not respond to other drugs and medications, including methadone, pethidine, paracetamol and codeine even at 200 times higher concentrations. |
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