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| Drug addiction rife in Victorian jails |
| By The Age |
| Published: 01/14/2008 |
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AUSTRALIA - Prison authorities have expanded drug detection tests in Victorian jails after discovering an increasing number of inmates abusing a heroin addiction substitute. The addition of the drug buprenorphine to Corrections Victoria's drug-testing regime comes amid a separate review into the administration of drug users in prisons, and new statistics that reveal scores of prisoners remain drug-dependent while in Victorian prisons. Buprenorphine is a semi-synthetic opiate introduced in Victoria in the late 1990s as a treatment for heroin dependency in cases where methadone was deemed inappropriate. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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