1.   An autopsy has not been completed on Pizzuto, a recovering heroin user who had been in methadone treatment, and jail officials would not comment Saturday.

2.   Australia, New Zealand, Canada and some European nations have incorporated physician-based methadone treatment into their mainstream health care practices.

3.   Decades of experience have shown that methadone treatment is the most effective way to control heroin addiction.

4.   Giuliani has sharply criticized methadone treatment, describing the physical dependence it creates as tantamount to enslavement, and has criticized McCaffrey for endorsing it.

5.   He also plans to suggest creating a comprehensive evaluation and accreditation system to assess methadone treatment at clinics, which vary widely in the quality and quantity of services.

6.   How did Nixon come to approve the financing of methadone treatment for tens of thousands of addicts?

7.   In Germany, where methadone treatment was initially shunned, thousands of addicts have been maintained on codeine, which many doctors and patients still prefer to methadone.

8.   McCaffrey is urging that methadone treatment be made available to any addict who requests and needs it.

9.   Newsom also is pushing for expanding methadone treatment to help get people off heroin.

10.   One of his early goals is to defend the merits of methadone treatment in light of recent criticisms by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.