SALOME Study: Treatment for Heroin Addiction (4/7)
SALOME Study: Treatment for Heroin Addiction (4/7) – Part 4 of the video discusses methadone maintenance therapy. There is a subgroup of individuals who do not benefit from methadone as a treatment for heroin a…
Editorial: Resurgence of deadly heroin underscores need for treatment
Filed under: treatment for heroin addiction
The development of methadone helped treat the addicted, and the end of the Vietnam War closed out some of the smuggling routes that had flourished since the conflict began in the mid-1960s. As cocaine use skyrocketed, heroin moved to the background …
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Hard knock life for Sham Shui Po street sleeper
Filed under: treatment for heroin addiction
From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, he collected protection fees for his triad, dealt heroin, organised prostitution rings and was involved in gang fights. Once, he was caught for taking heroin and sent to an addiction treatment centre in Hei Ling …
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California state Senate OKs social network, drug bills
Filed under: treatment for heroin addiction
Under a separate bill the Senate approved Thursday, prosecutors would gain the power to charge possession of heroin, cocaine and other hard drugs as a misdemeanor rather than a felony. Sen. … "They know they don't have to go to treatment …
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