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Yarborough: Dealing with prescription drug abuse deaths
There is evidence to suggest that there are at least four effective methods to save lives related to prescription drug overdose associated with opiates such as oxycodone and hydrocodone. A drug called … Second is methadone, a marginalized drug … Read more on Tulsa World

Part One: Justice Redesigned: Hartford Board Works to Reconnect Offenders …
After seeing Beebe drifting across the center line, the officer stopped him, put him in handcuffs and brought him to a hospital, where he tested positive for marijuana and methadone. He was charged with driving under the influence, … After his … Read more on Valley News

County's Substance Abuse Prevention Group to Host Forum
During the period from 200 to 2013, there were 169 confirmed fatal overdoses in Berkshire County attributed to opioids, methadone and heroin. Data shows that the vast majority of people who abuse pain killers get them from the home medicine cabinet, … Read more on iBerkshires.com    Read more...

Justice Delayed
But detectives Hohman and Bealefeld never contacted Lumpkin (who died earlier this year, reportedly, after overdosing on a housemate's methadone). And the detectives' …. “They had a young girl that day,” Koethe said in the taped interview. “She was … Read more on Baltimore City Paper

Prescription drug database is tool against addiction
Law enforcers, addiction counselors and parents of drug overdose victims know that few who fall victim to heroin's deathly grip start out as hard core users. The gateway to … Legally, we do not have access to that information,” said Dr. Greg Pierce … Read more on The Mercury

FDA urges reins on painkillers
Patients would also be required to take a prescription to a pharmacy, rather than have a doctor call it in. Prescription drugs account for about three-quarters of all drug overdose deaths in the United States, with the number of deaths from narcotic … Read more on Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Police to collect unwanted medications
More than 20,000 Americans died from prescription drug overdoses in 2008, according to the Center for Disease Control. Most of those deaths, more than 14,800, were the result of opioid painkiller abuse, drugs like Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet … Read more on Dodge City Daily Globe

FDA wants limits on prescribed painkillers
Both belong to a family of drugs known as opioids, which also includes heroin, codeine and methadone. Earlier this year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that prescription painkiller overdose deaths among women increased about … Read more on kgw.com

FDA wants tighter restrictions on hydrocodone
They would be upgraded from Schedule III to Schedule II — joining more powerful opium-derived narcotics such as ocycodone (the active ingredient in Oxycontin), methadone and fentanyl, as well as Adderall and Ritalin, which are typically prescribed for … Read more on Marketplace.org    Read more...

Miles City man sentenced in methadone death
A Miles City man who admitted giving methadone pills to a Miles City woman who died of an overdose of the drug will spend three years in federal prison. Senior U.S. District Judge Sam Haddon sentenced Joseph Daniel Capehart, 27, in Helena on Monday. Read more on Billings Gazette

Activists: Physicians in California Should Be Tested for Drugs
Joseph Kennedy, who died from an overdose after a doctor prescribed Xanax and methadone in exchange for $ 150 in cash, according to his father. Posted: Monday, October 14, 2013 6:00 am | Updated: 10:52 am, Fri Oct 18, 2013. Activists: Physicians in … Read more on VoiceofOC

Hearing in child methadone overdose continued
A preliminary hearing for a White Haven couple accused of delaying medical treatment for their 6-year-old daughter after a methadone overdose July 22 was continued Thursday because their attorney has been suspended. No new date was set for the hearing … Read more on Standard Speaker    Read more...

Miles City man sentenced for woman's methadone overdose, death
BILLINGS — A Miles City man who pleaded guilty to giving methadone to a woman who later died of an overdose has been sentenced to three years in federal prison. Joseph Daniel Capehart was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Sam Haddon in … Read more on The Missoulian

FDA Urging a Tighter Rein on Painkillers
Prescription drugs account for about three-quarters of all drug overdose deaths in the United States, with the number of deaths from narcotic painkillers, or opioids, quadrupling since 1999, according to federal data. Drugs containing hydrocodone … Read more on New York Times

NRV pain doctor begins serving 33-month prison sentence
… overdose death, prosecutors said, an estimated 4,600 other people are abusing prescription drugs. Prescription drug abuse “has evolved from a law enforcement problem to what we now think is a full-fledged public health crisis,” said Tim Heaphy, U.S … Read more on Roanoke Times    Read more...