Welcome to this SupportNet Slideshow presentation on Methadone Maintenance Treatment - from the experience of Clinic 528 in London, Ontario.

The goals of this slideshow are to help you to better understand the issues of opiate drug addiction - to learn about the Clinic 528 program of care - and to alert you to the current means and extent of prescription drug diversion in this community.

This is a substantial slideshow - with fifty slides in four sections - Introduction, Definitions, Clinic 528 Model of Care and Issues of Diversion. The fully audio annotated version is 30 minutes in duration.

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