Odds of dying tripled if convicted offenders didn’t take methadone: study

People with criminal histories who stopped taking methadone to treat an opioid addiction were three times more likely to die from an overdose, new B.C. research suggests.
But their chances of continuing treatment with the drug could have increased dramatically with support for issues like mental illness, housing and employment, says Julian Somers, one of the authors of a new study of 14,530 people whose data were obtained through the ministries of health, justice and social development in B