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Tue 05 May 2009Heroin addicts waiting up to two years for treatment
LENGTHENING WAITING times for methadone treatment are acting as a disincentive for heroin addicts to seek treatment, the chief executive of the largest voluntary drug treatment project, Merchants Quay Ireland, has warned.
Tony Geoghegan was commenting on figures from the HSE published last month showing waiting times of up to two years are a particular problem outside Dublin, though waiting times in parts of the capital are up to 27 weeks.
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