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OPINION: Meth addiction can be fought with medication – Cincinnati.com

OPINION: Meth addiction can be fought with medication Cincinnati.com But when people are closely monitored and doses adjusted with careful medical supervision, they become safe and useful tools in a treatment program. All medications have side effects and methadone and suboxone have potential for abuse as they are …

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114 drug addicts enrolled with WDHB – Wanganui Chronicle

114 drug addicts enrolled with WDHB Wanganui Chronicle 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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Photo: Contributed – AERU (African Elephant Research Unit) Knysna Elephant … Castanet.net That means the burning of waste, slash or grassland, or any campfire larger than half-a-metre by half-a-metre, is prohibited from just north of Revelstoke to the U.S. border, and from the west side of the Monashee Mountains to the Alberta boundary …

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‘Harm reduction’ is starting to pay dividends – Chilliwack Progress

'Harm reduction' is starting to pay dividends Chilliwack Progress On the down side, there was an increase in the use of other drugs such as crack cocaine smoking, injection and non-injection crystal meth use, and prescription opioid injection. The use of … Methadone maintenance therapy went up from 11.7 per cent in …

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QTc Interval Screening in an Opioid Treatment Program.

Am J Cardiol. 2013 Jun 29;
Katz DF, Sun J, Khatri V, Kao D, Bucher-Bartelson B, Traut C, Lundin-Martinez J, Goodman M, Mehler PS, Krantz MJ

Methadone is highly effective for opioid dependency, but it is associated with Torsade de pointes. Although electrocardiography (ECG) has been proposed, its utility is uncertain, because an ECG-based intervention has not been described. An ECG-based cardiac safety program in methadone maintenance patients was evaluated in a single opioid treatment program from September 1, 2009, to August 31, 2011, in the United States. Time from pretreatment to repeat ECG in new entrants was assessed. The proportion with marked rate-corrected QT (QTc) interval prolongation (>500 ms) and the effect of the intervention on the QTc interval in this group were evaluated. Multivariate predictors of QTc interval change were assessed using a mixed-effects model. Of 531 new entrants, 436 (82%) underwent ?1 electrocardiographic assessment, and 186 (35%) underwent pretreatment ECG. Median time to follow-up ECG was 43 days but decreased over time (p <0.0001). In 21 patients with QTc intervals >500 ms, the mean QTc interval from peak to final ECG decreased significantly (-55.5 ms, 95% confidence interval -77.0 to -33.9, p = 0.001), and 12 of 21 (57.1%) decreased to lower than the 500-ms threshold. In new entrants with serial ECG, only methadone dose (p = 0.009) and pretreatment QTc interval (p <0.0001) were associated with the magnitude of QTc interval change. In conclusion, this study suggests that the implementation of an ECG-based intervention in methadone maintenance can decrease the QTc interval in high-risk patients; clinical characteristics alone were inadequate to identify patients in need of electrocardiographic screening. HubMed – Methadone

Methadone, syringe plans prevented 3100 AIDS cases – AsiaOne

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Methadone, syringe plans prevented 3100 AIDS cases AsiaOne KUALA LUMPUR: The government has spent considerable resources and efforts to control HIV transmission among needle-dependent addicts through harm reduction programmes, such as methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) and the needle and syringe … 3100 new HIV infections averted due to harm reduction programmes in MalaysiaThe Borneo Post all 2 news articles »

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Shooting for a solution – NOW Magazine

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Shooting for a solution NOW Magazine Clients bring their own drugs and are provided with clean needles, tourniquets and other paraphernalia, and are also offered connections to treatment and detox programs. According to TPH, research shows supervised consumption reduces the incidence of …

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