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Addicted to Profits: Insurance Companies Adjust Coverage of Methadone Clinics
Addicted to Profits: Insurance companies adjust coverage of methadone clinics
With lives at stake, methadone clinics play an integral role in treating opiate addicts. However, the actions of city and state government, insurance companies and private equity firms may impose financial difficulties on patients seeking opiate addiction treatment. Last month, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick declared opiate abuse a public health emergency in Massachusetts, citing potent […]
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Addiction research looks toward opiate blockers
Prescription painkillers have a double reinforcing effect, making them a risk for abuse, according to Dr. Gerardo Gonzalez, director of addiction psychiatry at University of Massachusetts Medical School. The opioids not only provide immediate euphoria, but habitual users undergo painful withdrawal if they abruptly stop taking them.
Methadone Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results
Medication an Effective Tool in Fighting Addiction
Medication an effective tool in fighting addiction
In fact, the City of Boston recently announced plans to close the Public Health Commission's Frontage Road methadone clinic, widely regarded as an outstanding and integral part of the addiction treatment landscape in Boston. Even some doctors have …
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Boston to shutter drug treatment facility
More than 400 opiate addicts in Boston who receive daily doses of methadone from a public clinic on Frontage Road will be steered to a for-profit facility by summer, health officials said. In a 6-to-1 vote last week, Boston's Board of Health decided to …
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Finding treatment for opiate addiction fraught with challenges
Robin A. Nagle, a licensed clinical social worker, addiction counselor and clinical supervisor at Spectrum Health Systems in Worcester, said the quickest way to get someone into Spectrum's outpatient program, which offers counseling, groups and …
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Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM
Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM
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Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM Would seem to make more sense to substitute medical marijuana for methadone to treat addicts. Methadone can be just as lethal as the drug for which it's being substituted. I saw far more economic and personal damage from alcohol than from pot during my … |
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City’s methadone funds could cover broader addiction plan – Boston Globe
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City's methadone funds could cover broader addiction plan
Boston Globe The city clinic, on Frontage Road in the South End, has operated for 40 years, since methadone first won approval as a treatment for heroin addiction. Methadone reduces cravings for heroin and helps stave off withdrawal symptoms. The drug was a giant … BPHS proposes closing sole public methadone clinic Boston officials looking to transfer operations of only city-run methadone clinic |
Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM
Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM
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Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM Would seem to make more sense to substitute medical marijuana for methadone to treat addicts. Methadone can be just as lethal as the drug for which it's being substituted. I saw far more economic and personal damage from alcohol than from pot during my … |
Methadone Addiction – Google News
City’s methadone funds could cover broader addiction plan – Boston Globe
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City's methadone funds could cover broader addiction plan
Boston Globe The city clinic, on Frontage Road in the South End, has operated for 40 years, since methadone first won approval as a treatment for heroin addiction. Methadone reduces cravings for heroin and helps stave off withdrawal symptoms. The drug was a giant … BPHS proposes closing sole public methadone clinic Boston officials looking to transfer operations of only city-run methadone clinic |
Crimean Side-Effect: Heroin Addicts Deprived of Methadone Because Russia …
Crimean side-effect: Heroin addicts deprived of methadone because Russia …
In this photo taken Tuesday, April 1, 2014, Denis Troshin, who runs the local NGO, Harbor-Plus, which helps coordinate methadone therapy for 130 of Sevastopol's recovering addicts, speaks in his office… (Associated Press) …
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Letter: Methadone programs can beat addiction
People are starting to come around as they become more educated on opiate addiction and as exposure to its treatments increases. In turn, they are realizing methadone treatment is necessary. If the patients get it in a controlled environment, are …
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Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM
Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM
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Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM Would seem to make more sense to substitute medical marijuana for methadone to treat addicts. Methadone can be just as lethal as the drug for which it's being substituted. I saw far more economic and personal damage from alcohol than from pot during my … |
Methadone Addiction – Google News
City’s methadone funds could cover broader addiction plan – Boston Globe
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City's methadone funds could cover broader addiction plan
Boston Globe The city clinic, on Frontage Road in the South End, has operated for 40 years, since methadone first won approval as a treatment for heroin addiction. Methadone reduces cravings for heroin and helps stave off withdrawal symptoms. The drug was a giant … BPHS proposes closing sole public methadone clinic Boston officials looking to transfer operations of only city-run methadone clinic |