Local Methadone Clinic Helps Reduce Rx Deaths
Local methadone clinic helps reduce Rx deaths
Mountain Health Solutions, Wilkes County's only methadone clinic, is credited with helping to bring a dramatic reduction in deaths from prescription pain medication overdose in Wilkes in the last five years. Two years after Wilkes ranked third among …
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Lake County law officials warn parents of rise in teen heroin use
Part of what makes it easy to overdose is the fact that the drug's color has no relationship to purity level, making it impossible to judge potency with the naked eye. Goers and Lewakowski said the drug ranges in color and purity level depending on …
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Fremont man sentenced to 11 years
FREMONT — For killing his wife with an overdose of the methadone prescribed to him for a back injury, Jason Risenburg was sentenced today to 11 years in prison. Risenburg, 38, who pleaded guilty Jan. 24 to involuntary manslaughter, offered no …
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Trust issues: Bill requires OH to issue drug fact sheets
Dentists, nurses, physician assistants and optometrists also would dispense the state-created form when prescribing a schedule II drug or a drug containing opioids, such as heroin, OxyContin, Vicodin, morphine and methadone. “It's just a plain-English …
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