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Cognitive_Shift
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A First in Sub-Saharan Africa: Methadone Maintenance Program
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A First in Sub-Saharan Africa: Methadone Maintenance Program
NYTimes.com
With the help of the American government, the first methadone maintenance program in sub-Saharan Africa opened this month in a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. While heroin use is not common in Africa, it has been growing recently in Tanzania’s port cities, which are used to ship the drug, usually from Afghanistan to Europe. Drug couriers may be paid in heroin, creating a new group of addicts.
Tanzania now has an estimated 25,000 drug injectors, 40 percent of them infected with H.I.V., according to the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, a San Francisco-based group that is advising the Tanzanian government on the program. The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, created by President George W. Bush, is paying for it. Needle-sharing spreads both H.I.V. and hepatitis. Last year, an American researcher reported finding Tanzanians practicing “flashblood,” in which one addict injects herself with another’s blood in the hopes of sharing the high.
In Africa, fear of the unfamiliar often leads to accusations of witchcraft, and if heroin use is unfamiliar, methadone is even more so. Methadone is even more addictive than heroin, though it is given in oral doses meant to be small enough to produce no high. In announcing the opening of the program at Muhimbili Hospital, the American Embassy in Tanzania said it was “fully aware that challenges will likely be encountered whilst services are being established.”
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aysen
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Re: A First in Sub-Saharan Africa: Methadone Maintenance Program [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
#14029152 - 02/26/11 07:27 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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think its watered down?
look its the red color cherry shit but look as the size of it lol that cup is almost complelty full
my 100mg doses were 1/8th of that
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TTT
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Re: A First in Sub-Saharan Africa: Methadone Maintenance Program [Re: aysen]
#14029657 - 02/26/11 10:14 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Creating addicts in other countries since the days of Britain.
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Cognitive_Shift
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Re: A First in Sub-Saharan Africa: Methadone Maintenance Program [Re: TTT]
#14029743 - 02/26/11 10:40 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Last year, an American researcher reported finding Tanzanians practicing “flashblood,” in which one addict injects herself with another’s blood in the hopes of sharing the high.
Some hard core african junkies...
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Lanc3r117
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Re: A First in Sub-Saharan Africa: Methadone Maintenance Program [Re: aysen]
#14034317 - 02/27/11 03:20 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
aysen said: think its watered down?
look its the red color cherry shit but look as the size of it lol that cup is almost complelty full
my 100mg doses were 1/8th of that
They are in Africa. I am sure they could use the extra water. It's like killing two birds with one stone; feeding a drug hunger and their thirst.
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Re: A First in Sub-Saharan Africa: Methadone Maintenance Program [Re: Lanc3r117]
#14035088 - 02/27/11 10:19 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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i can't believe that "flashblood" even produces a high. there are 7 pints of blood in an adult human body. unless the main drug user is boot huge amounts of (really strong) dope, i don't see a few cc's of blood taken from him and given to someone else could even produce a buzz. maybe, just enough to stave off w/d's.
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Re: A First in Sub-Saharan Africa: Methadone Maintenance Program [Re: istandalone]
#14035176 - 02/27/11 10:44 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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yeah, great ! get them hooked for life & give more money to pharm labs ! Hurra !
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