Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Drug Addiction and Recovery Models: Discussion
9:30 am
Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I have a question on methadone and our obsession with it. Although individual pathways for users were mentioned, they always end up on methadone treatment programmes. One can argue that we do not have individual pathways to recovery. Is there any use of other heroin substitutes such as buprenorphine? We seem to have no individual pathways to recovery because everybody is on methadone. It cannot be suitable for everybody.
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