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| Call to expand methadone treatment |
| By CBC News |
| Published: 01/16/2009 |
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CANADA - The Saint John police chief is calling for an expansion in methadone treatment programs to help battle drug-related crime. Bill Reid said about 75 per cent of crime in the city is related to drugs, including the prescription painkiller, Dilaudid. Reid said many of the robberies, assaults and break-and-enters that occur in the southern New Brunswick city are drug-related. He said addicts will do whatever they need to do to feed their habits. "The frustration is that we arrest so and so and he or she is back out on the street and they're doing the same thing again," he said. "And at some point that has to stop and we have to support whatever it is that we can get for those folks to get the help they need besides incarceration." Reid said it's unacceptable that addicts who ask for help may have to wait up to a year for treatment. He said the methadone maintenance program at Ridgewood Addiction Services should be expanded. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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