Memorable and Still Relevant Quotes:
"The drug treatment field is unusually contentious. the gold standard pharmacological therapy for heroin dependence, methadone maintenance treatment, is attacked relentlessly despite compelling evidence of benefit and safety."
Alex Wodak, 2005
Expert Opinion Drug Saf. 4(5):815-819
"Methadone maintenance is a treatment method that does restore a substantial portion of those treated to socially productive activities. Thus, as community groups fight the establishment of new clinics ... the necessity is to compare the results with what else is available rather than with generally unrealistic expectations."
Oct 1, 1975
NY Times Editorial
posted by RGNewman, MD @ 2:50 PM
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Methadone also kills.
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Published on 19 Dec 2007
DRUG deaths soared from 111 to 162 in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board area last year.
DRUG deaths soared from 111 to 162 in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board area last year.
Heroin or morphine was the cause of 97 deaths and methadone was involved in 58 cases.
In Glasgow alone, there were 113 drug-related deaths, a sharp rise from 75 last year.
The rises in both areas were far higher than anywhere else in the country.
The figures, in a report from the General Register Office, revealed there were 421 drug-related deaths in Scotland, 85 more than last year.
It has been said before that there is no "evil" in molecules. Drugs -- methadone or any other -- do not kill people. People misusing or abusing drugs sadly sometimes kill themselves. Perhaps, it is time that we stop blaming drugs and focus on failures of personal responsibility and the community.
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