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B.C. health provider, patients file lawsuit over prescription heroin access

Posted on Sat, Nov 16, 2013 - 8:20pm

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heroin, SALOME, Providence Health Care, drug addiction, Insite, methadone, Dr. Scott MacDonald

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For decades, Larry Love's daily life was consumed by heroin. Find it. Inject it. Repeat. That cycle, he said, was broken last year when he enrolled in a radical clinical trial in Vancouver evaluating the use of prescription heroin, seen as the treatment of last resort for severely addicted people for whom other therapy, such as methadone or detox, have failed.

Heroin addicts launch Charter challenge to prescription ban

Posted on Sat, Nov 16, 2013 - 8:14pm

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heroin, drug addiction, SALOME, Providence Health Care, Naomi, methadone

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Five people severely addicted to heroin are launching a constitutional challenge to the federal government’s ban on the prescription version of the drug, The Globe and Mail has learned.

A Letter to Canada’s Minister of Disease?

Posted on Wed, Oct 23, 2013 - 3:32pm

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drugs, addiction, addicts, heroin, Dr. Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes, methadone, Dr. Evan Wood

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Dear Rona Ambrose, As a member of the federal government, you are currently titled Canada’s Health Minister. I question the accuracy of that nomenclature.

Heroin-assisted treatment and politics-based medicine

Posted on Wed, Oct 23, 2013 - 3:06pm

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A lawyer for some of the patients in the SALOME study says he’ll consider options for a legal response to Rona Ambrose’s decision to block access to diacetylmorphine.