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EXTENDED METHADONE PRESCRIBING NEEDED TO SAVE LIVES
This study of primary care patients in Britain concluded that it takes extended opiate substitute
prescribing to realise the life-saving potential of the treatment. The implication is that the
current national policy push to get people off methadone sooner could cost lives.
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