From heroin addiction to alcohol-related problems

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 20:41 in Health & Medicine

Methadone programs and long-term therapy using other opioids evidently work. People addicted to heroin consume less heroin, cocaine and even alcohol at the beginning of the treatment. As a long-term study reveals, however, the alcohol consumption among these patients has increased considerably since the 1990s.

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