methadone

Methadone Man and Buprenorphine Babe target Russia

This latest video released by the Open Society Institute (OSI) addresses the fact that Russia has still not endorsed Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) such as methadone and Buprenorphine as a form of treatment for heroin dependency.

Author of new report on drug misuse in British prison's interviewed

TalkingDrugs conducts an interview with Max Chambers author of Coming Clean, Policy Exchange's new report that criticises the overuse of methadone as a form of drug treatment in the British prison system.

HCLU: Methadone breaking the ice

HCLU’s video advocacy team attended a press conference organized by the Russian delegation in Vienna at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), where the representatives of the world's governments discussed the burning questions of international drug control policies.

Substitution therapy in Greece: a troubled story

When the Prime Minister of Greece decided to visit a substitution therapy centre in the heart of Athens a couple of weeks ago, several newspapers reported the government's renewed pledge to support the troubled organisation that provides the methadone and buprenorphine treatment and was recently left out of the cutback plans that have been announced to help relieve Greece's current economic pains.

Doctor's fight methadone hysteria

Expert doctors from around the world rallied together in response to the well publicized and ignorant moral crusade against methadone in Scotland. The message from the group is straightforward - let the evidence do the talking.

Russia and Methadone

On paper, Maksim Popov looks like a modern day saint; Psychologist, HIV activist and head of Uzbekistan based NGO Izis. Yet reality sees him sentenced to seven years in prison for the promotion of (all those well-known sins) safe sex and attempting to prevent the spread of HIV. Ironically, thanks to Uzbekistan’s contradictory policies, he is now living amongst many of the people he was trying to help.

Russian drug czar says methadone treatment is possible

The head of the Russian government delegation stated that methadone treatment is not effective - but there is a possibility to do that in Russia

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Methadone treatment in Macedonia and all problems which we are facing with it.

Submitted by Vito on Thu, 11/02/2010 - 15:14

My name is Georgievski Vitomir but most of the people know me as Vito. I want to say that I am drug user activist and this days I am working for two NGO’s in Macedonia, one which is dealing with problems that methadone patients have and the second one which is drug users union we are trying through direct action to change something in the drug users area. Currently I am also a board member of INPUD and I am general secretary of the same organization.

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