114 Drug Addicts Enrolled With WDHB

Published July 6, 2013

114 drug addicts enrolled with WDHB

Filed under: prescription drug addiction treatment

Opioid substitution treatment – which often involves prescribing the class B drug methadone to combat addiction – aims to reduce drug-related harm to addicts and the community. Dr Patrick O'Connor, medical officer for the DHB's Alcohol and Other Drugs …
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Bitter pills

Filed under: prescription drug addiction treatment

Modern medicine has helped make our lives better in many ways, but medical treatment can have a downside, too — such as the growing number of deaths from overdoses of narcotics, both prescribed and illicit. Finding a solution will require … Dr. Jim …
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