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15/10/2007
Disputed Medicine Costs Hits Addicts
The cost of drugs used to treat heroin addicts is at the centre of a dispute between the Republic’s Health Service Executive (HSE) and the Irish Pharmaceutical Union.
The pharmacists are in dispute over the medicine prices paid to members by the government body.
From today, more than 140 pharmacies are refusing to disburse methadone to heroin addicts as part of an escalating row over the HSE's plans to cut the wholesale price it pays for medicine.
Around 3,000 people will be affected by the move and the HSE has warned that it could cause public order problems.
(BMcC)
The pharmacists are in dispute over the medicine prices paid to members by the government body.
From today, more than 140 pharmacies are refusing to disburse methadone to heroin addicts as part of an escalating row over the HSE's plans to cut the wholesale price it pays for medicine.
Around 3,000 people will be affected by the move and the HSE has warned that it could cause public order problems.
(BMcC)
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