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Aboriginal people with heroin addiction are less likely to use methadone therapy
07-02-2007 · EurekAlert!Aboriginal people who use heroin are less likely than their non-Aboriginal counterparts to use methadone maintenance therapy for treatment of their addiction, according to new research from British Columbia, Canada.
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