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Canadian Prisoners Win Battle to Access Methadone
The change in policy comes just as British Columbia announced a public health emergency due to drug overdose deaths.
Locked Up and Dope Sick: Canadian Prisoners Fight for Addiction Treatment
British Columbia prisoners are taking their jailers to court to fight for access to methadone and Suboxone.
Is BC’s New Methadone Leading Some Patients Back to Heroin?
After BC’s 15,000 methadone patients were switched to a new form of the medication called Methadose, complaints rolled in stating the doses did not last long enough. Now some patients say its forcing them to self-medicate with heroin.
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