Methadone Addiction in the News

Methadone Addiction: Surfer Irons Died of Heart Attack and Drugs, Autopsy Says
Andy Irons, a three-time world surfing champion from Hawaii, died at 32 in a hotel room last November.
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Methadone Addiction: Officials: Heroin use up in all groups
COLUMBIA COUNTY — Various Columbia County agencies including police, hospital, drug rehabilitation programs, and the health department have been seeing an increase in heroin use, not only in the county’s overall population, but in young age groups.
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Methadone Addiction: Methadone being demonized by local media

This is a story from a Philadelphia news station about a methadone clinic and the availability of Methadone on the streets. The video shows nothing to prove any drug dealing. Most likely the transactions seen were the buying and selling of Bus tokens, that is why it was done so openly. The mother interviewed in the video is on a warpath against Methadone and will not accept the fact that he died as a result of his addiction. Methadone prevents the spread of aids, Hepatitis C and other diseases. It also saves the lives of thousands of people who are addicted to Heroin, Percocet, oxycontin, vicodin and other opioid drugs. The recent rise in Methadone deaths are NOT as a result of treatment clinics, but because doctors are hesitant to prescribe oxycontin and other short acting opiates due to the media campaign against them. Doctors are now prescribing Methadone it their place and the insurance companies love it because it’s so much cheaper than other pain killers. Police and DEA studies show that almost all of the Methadone available on the streets is in pill form which is never given to patients at clinics, instead they are diverted to the street from pain patients who can’t work and are living in poverty because of their pain and sell off a part of their prescription lured by the large sums of money the drugs command. This video also fails to mention that addicts attending clinics have to go to the clinic to get their dose 365 days a year until they have significant clean …
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