Addiction centre boss calls for abstinence approach to drug treatment programmes
THE boss of a Burton rehabilitation centre has called on government ministers to honour commitments to move heroin addicts away from methadone treatment programmes. Noreen Oliver, chief executive of Burton Addiction Centre, made the comments after …
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Flesh-eating drug reaches US
Banner's Poison Control Centre says the first two US cases have been reported in Arizona. … Russia has 2.5 million people who have registered to seek treatment as addicts and the average life span for a user is only two to three years. Krokodil. This …
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Seeking New Methods to Treat Heroin Addiction
A number of research projects funded under the Programme on Alcohol and Drug Research (RUSMIDDEL) at the Research Council of Norway may help to solve the mystery. "Gaining a thorough understanding of the effects of heroin and of the neurobiological …
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