Detox News
Prevention Better Than Cure
Sunday January 30, 2000
Five years ago Dr ``Robert Brown", a senior specialist in a Melbourne hospital, woke up in a detox unit. He was brought in, unconscious and vomiting blood, after a ``God-almighty binge" of alcohol, benzodiazepines, pethidine and other narcotics. He doesn't remember what triggered thiFree Heroin Or Free Detox Programs?
Monday January 17, 2000
Consideration is being given to the provision of rooms for the safe injection of heroin (now there is an oxymoron!). Many drug-related deaths are due to overdose through using heroin of uncertain strength, or by poisoning through impurities used to "cut" the drugs. Perhaps it is time