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Fri 07 Jul 2009Two-year waiting list for methadone
HEROIN ADDICTS are waiting two years on average to get methadone treatment in the southeast, the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee was told yesterday.
Senior HSE official Gretta Crowley, an acting assistant national director, said 545 people in the State were waiting to get on to the methadone programme. Some 106 of these addicts were in the Cork area.
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