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A medication offered to heroin abusers at the Albany County jail was shown to help prevent addicts from returning to illegal drug use, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England ...

We have methadone clinics to get smack users to wean off the crap, and heroin is very dangerous highly-addictive CRAP. Heroin addicts have a rotten quality of life no matter what because sooner or ...

THE Government shelled out more than €20million on methadone treatments for heroin addicts last year, the Irish Sun can reveal. And 2015 also saw the number of users availing of the free substitute ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Heroin and narcotics pain medications were among the leading drugs that killed people in Portland and surrounding counties in 2001, health experts say. Now there's new optimism in ...

A Canadian study that found giving heroin to hardcore drug addicts at a supervised clinic leads to a higher rate of recovery than giving them methadone was published Thursday in the prestigious New ...

GENEVA -- Physician Daniele Zullino keeps glass bottles full of white powder in a safe in a locked room of his office. Patients show up each day to receive their treatment in small doses handed ...

SHE now rakes in a whopping £13,000 a month thanks to TikTok. But just a few years ago, Shannon Ashley’s life was looking ...

A battle has broken out over plans to open a new help center for crack addicts near Frankfurt’s main railway station, an area notorious for its bustling illegal drugs scene. Visitors arriving by rail ...

Thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money has been spent on hiring taxis to take drug addicts to an NHS clinic to be injected with ‘free’ heroin. Addicts with ‘chaotic’ lifestyles are picked up and ...