[Ethical questions about methadone].

S Zombek

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[Ethical questions about methadone].

S Zombek

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The author approaches ethical questions raised by use of methadone in opiates addiction: reduction of drug phenomenon to a strict medical problem, illusion of technical mastery, responsibility of pharmaceutical engineering, medicine under repressive constraint, reduction of damages linked to prohibition. The communication ends on a question about management of drug problems which today encourages a healthy vision of consumption behaviour rather than a "good way of use".

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