31. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead were struggling with heroin addiction at the time of their deaths. 32. Like me, White had a sporadic history of heroin addiction and nonviolent criminal offenses. 33. Medical specialists have described methadone as the most effective treatment available for heroin addiction, observing that it has been studied more thoroughly than almost any other medication. 34. Methadone, a synthetic narcotic painkiller, is widely accepted as a cure for heroin addiction, although normally it must be used for long periods. 35. McCaffrey said methadone should be one of the principal methods for reducing heroin addiction in this country. 36. Over the years, methadone has become the favored treatment for heroin addiction, and the federal government has lately pledged to make it more accessible. 37. Prisons would have been required to set up methadone treatment programs for inmates who said they had a heroin addiction. 38. Santiago said she was taking methadone to fight her heroin addiction during her pregnancy, and that Manny was born addicted to methadone, a synthetic form of heroin. 39. She kept insisting that she was being swindled, but she wanted the money for her own heroin addiction. 40. The company has also received approval for ReVia, an oral drug used for heroin addiction. |