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# Methadone

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Dublin's approach to supporting drug users during pandemic saved lives, report finds
1 Jul 2020
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'Addiction doesn't stop during a pandemic, it gets worse': Methadone waiting lists virtually eliminated amid overdose fears
25 Apr 2020
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Keeping opioid dependents in methadone treatment for longer saves lives, study finds
20 Feb 2020
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'We're replacing one addiction with another': Number of people accessing methadone up 600% in some counties
24 Dec 2019
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Minister says she did not approve wording of letter telling residents methadone clinic would not open
31 Jul 2019
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'You feel you can't get a job': Methadone users face stigma and isolation, new report finds
10 Dec 2018
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Lynn Ruane: 20 years on from the introduction of the methadone strategy, where are we now?
Lynn Ruane
21 Oct 2018
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No public health policy has 'been designed with the homeless population specifically in mind'
19 Oct 2017
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Social work action 'unacceptably slow' in case of heroin user whose newborn died
13 Aug 2017
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92 hospital discharges of newborns with drug withdrawal symptoms last year
12 Jul 2017
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'I overdosed twice in two days to get methadone': A drug user on trying to get clean
8 Oct 2016
14.8k
9
This man was born addicted to drugs but is now a successful businessman and father
24 Sep 2015
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Almost 10,000 people are in methadone programmes in Ireland - and the number is rising
21 Jun 2015
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Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Everything you need to know as you start your morning – and your week.
16 Mar 2015
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'Worse now than the heroin epidemic of the 80s' - Christy Burke on drugs in Dublin
28 Jan 2015
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Twink, Superquinn sausages, Irish Water, and punts: Ireland by numbers in 2014
20 Dec 2014
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Methadone. Heroin. Alcohol ... Surge in mixed-drug deaths since 2004
15 Dec 2014
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Dublin Lord Mayor calls for task force to tackle inner city addiction problems
10 Aug 2014
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New claims against gardaí: teenager with special needs 'whipped' with a belt
14 May 2014
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Ireland has 9,615 methadone users but care plans needed to get them drug-free
22 Apr 2014
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How more people died on methadone than heroin in Ireland
27 Jan 2014
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Just eight out of 20 beds in operation at successful HSE rehab unit
5 Aug 2013
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Denis O'Brien: doing business with Apple is "like going on methadone"
25 Sep 2012
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