Crouse Hospital expanding its methadone program as painkiller, heroin …
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"There's much more demand than there are treatment options right now in the community." The hospital got permission from the state Office Of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services to expand the program. The program serves patients from 17 counties.
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Vietnamese addicts spend .56mln a day on drugs
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Addressing at the event, a representative of General Department of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control under the Ministry of Health, said that some 14,000 drug addicts nationwide are being treated by Methadone and 90 to 95 percent of them stop using drugs …
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Greek prison system collapsing _ labeled 'inhuman'
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The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment issued a rare public statement in 2011 slamming Greece for “a steady deterioration in the living conditions and treatment of prisoners over the past …
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