Using heroin to treat heroin addiction

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The city of Vancouver, Canada, is experimenting with ways to treat heroin addicts who don’t respond to traditional treatments, like methadone. In some cases, they’re prescribing heroin as a maintenance drug. Elana Gordon has the story.

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