Methadone prescribing in Scotland has reached a new high, with the total cost of providing the heroin substitute reaching more than £28 million last year.Figures for 2010-11 show there were a record number of 533,733 prescriptions issued for methadone oral solution. That is up from 508,950 in 2009-10 and compares to the 488,504 prescriptions issued in 2006-07. There were more than 637 million milligrams of the drug dispensed in Scotland last year.
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