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Opioid-dependent patients are five times more likely to die in the first four weeks of treatment if they are prescribed methadone rather than the alternative treatment, buprenorphine, a new study shows.

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Up to two million hepatitis C infections could be averted worldwide in the next ten years if opioid substitution therapy was more readily available to injecting drug users, a study from UNSW’s Kirby Institute has found.

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A study by US and UNSW researchers has found prisoners forced to withdraw from methadone are less likely to seek community treatment. 

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Opiate substitution treatments can help reduce the risk of HIV transmission in people who inject drugs, researchers say.