Both citalopram and escitalopram, as well as methadone, was linked with a small but significantly longer QT interval.
Most of these patients had been prescribed an SSRI antidepressant, and some were patients who had been prescribed methadone.
Indonesia is running needle exchanges and handing out methadone to heroin users, although only at a handful of clinics.
He had noted Mr Nichol's "obvious over-sedated appearance", after he was prescribed diazepam and methadone, withholding overnight doses of medication.
The authors believe that this further stigmatized methadone and Suboxone use and that many opportunities to provide science-based information were missed.
Dr Alexander was accused of prescribing lethal doses of methadone, the heroin substitute, to two inmates at Brixton Prison in 1994.
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They found a small but significantly longer QT interval for SSRIs citalopram and escitalopram as well as for methadone and the tricyclic antidepressant amitriptyline.
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According to the report's author Kathy Gyngell, chairwoman of the prisons and addictions policy forum at the CPS, prescribing methadone to addicts delays their recovery.
The study also considered the role that methadone played in recovery.
The researchers included the methadone patients for comparison because this drug (used for pain relief and to wean addicts off heroin) is known to prolong QT interval.
The National Treatment Agency's own survey of almost 200 clinics in England found users were being offered extra methadone, a heroin substitute, or anti-depressants for good behaviour.
Within three days last September she had a daughter, Dannielynn, by no certain father, and lost her son Daniel, at 20, to an accidental overdose of methadone and anti-depressants.
Using electronic health records, they tracked 38, 397 adult patients from a large New England healthcare system who had an ECG following an antidepressant or methadone prescription between February 1990 and August 2011.
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As a result of Washington State switching from safer pain medication, such as OxyContin, to the cheaper but much riskier methadone, at least 2, 173 people died between 2003 and 2011 from accidental overdoses.
If the panel's advice is adopted by FDA, it would put hydrocodone on par with prescription painkillers like oxycodone, morphine, and methadone -- drugs with high abuse potential that can lead to severe physical dependence.
Across Switzerland, roughly 70% of addicts stay in the programme for at least 18 months, and 16% go on either to a scheme that uses methadone as a heroin substitute, or to one that weans users off drugs altogether.
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson challenged Mr Salmond over his government' implementation of the drugs strategy, highlighting the cost of methadone treatment the almost doubling of babies born to drug addicted mothers and the number of prisoners taking methadone reaching a record high.
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