Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 October 2024

Committee on Drugs Use

A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Photo of Lynn RuaneLynn Ruane (Independent)
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It is about ensuring it is implemented across the professions and in the different sectors. I will go back for a moment to differentiating between methadone and morphine. Is there a stigmatisation of methadone? If methadone changed its name and was just called an opioid, would things be different? Methadone has become synonymous with a particular group. Can the witnesses explain the differences between methadone and morphine? I know that one is more slow releasing and long acting. From a scientific perspective, what is the difference between them?