methadone
Burma's Heroin Addicts Are Plagued by Cheap Drugs and Conspiracy Theories
It's hard to get clean when a hit of high-grade heroin costs less than $2.
Britain Needs to Give Heroin Addicts Something Better Than Methadone
For six years I’ve been struggling to beat a heroin addiction, and I'm convinced that trying to switch over to methadone isn't the answer—but the people in charge of drug policy in the UK disagree.
I Spent an Afternoon with Montreal Squeegee Punks
At the forefront of Montreal infamous panhandling scene are the city’s iconic squeegee punks. We talked to the tatted, torn-denim clad army who walk into traffic and wash windshields for change at most of Montreal’s major intersections.
If You’re Addicted to Heroin, Consider Trying Ibogaine
A former heroin addict tells us how ibogaine saved his life.
Crimea's Heroin Addicts Are Dying Under Russian Drug Laws
Before annexation by Russia, Crimea was known for progressive drug policy. But Moscow has now banned methadone and addicts are suffering.
A Shaman, an Exile, and a Rapper Are Bringing a Hallucinogenic Heroin Cure to Afghanistan
The three men are working to open the country's first rehab clinic specializing in treatment with the vision-inducing drug ibogaine.
Bucharest Is Not a Good Place to Be a Heroin Addict
Unless you're into police brutality and an enforced lack of medical attention.
Kicking Addiction by Going from Heroin to Methadone to Ibogaine
After 20 years of taking methadone and dabbling with heroin, David Graham Scott kicked the habit with the aid of a powerful psychedelic.
Is Canada’s New Methadone Leading Some Patients Back to Heroin?
Many patients are saying that Methadose doesn’t hold them until their next dose, and it’s causing them to experience withdrawal symptoms.
Parents in Britain Are Doping Their Kids With Methadone
The UK still has a few Victorian practices alive, including finishing schools, cholera and most worryingly, doping babies with opiates.
British Parents Are Doping Their Kids with Methadone
In March of this year, a two-year-old British girl died of organ failure after drinking the heroin substitute methadone from a baby mug. The story quickly became national news, shedding light on the terrifying revival of a dangerous Victorian practice.