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ByAdminAdmin 08/01/2022These facts were important, of course, to Dole and Nyswander, but were completely crucial in their long battle to get government to go along with the idea of methadone maintenance. Government reflects Americans practical tendency as well as its moralistic, judgmental tendency, and in this case the practical tendency can out on top. Government allowed…
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Federal Register: January 17, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 11)
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National Methadone Conference Indexes
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ByAdminAdmin 03/31/2021Sniffing, Snorting Drugs May Raise HCV Risk by Theresa Waldron Reuters Health 4 Jul. 2003 Source: Journal of Medical Virology. 2003;70:387-390. People who snort or sniff heroin in combination with cocaine may be at increased risk of developing the liver infection hepatitis C, according to a new study. Thomas Kresina, a spokesman for the National…