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The changing face of opioid dependence in Australia

A study by University of New South Wale’s National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre has found the number of Australians […]

Methadone raises death risk in first month of treatment for opioid dependence

Opioid-dependent patients are five times more likely to die in the first four weeks of treatment if they are prescribed methadone […]

Methadone can protect injecting drug users against hep C

Up to two million hepatitis C infection cases could be averted worldwide in the next ten years if opioid substitution […]


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