
Laura Shaver shows me two fresh track marks on her arm. She’s using heroin again, after years on the methadone program. When I ask her what happened, she looks down. The words catch in her throat.In February, Shaver and the rest of BC’s 15,000 methadone patients were switched to a new formulation of the medication, called Methadose, used to treat opiate addiction.
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