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Zoeller's comments on drug testing pregnant women stir debate
Zoeller: One of the things that's the most shocking with 718 deaths last year attributed to prescription drug overdose; the rates of addiction, and one that really bothers me the most is that women who give birth to babies who are addicted … Read more on Palladium-Item

Cape police push life-saving overdose antidote
Cape police push life-saving overdose antidote. Text Size: A | A | A. Print this Article Email this Article … on his horn to get a police cruiser to stop. The scenario might sound strange, but it happened about two weeks in Quincy, where police since … Read more on Capecodonline

Vets and Widows Blast VA Over Toxic Pain Killer Prescriptions
Green, severely wounded by a mortar blast in Iraq, said the VA hospital in American Lake, Wash., prescribed him a mix of 13 pain killers, including Percocet, methadone and morphine, in such massive quantities that he ended up with liver damage. Minyard … Read more on Nextgov

500 Rapid Opiate Detox Treatments Successfully Performed by Las Vegas …
All 500 patients arrived to the clinic with opiate drug addictions to heroin, oxycontin, hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone, or suboxone, and received the new 8-hour detox treatment under anesthesia. The treatment stopped the physical addiction to … Read more on PR-BG.com (?????????????) (press release)

Studies: Epidemic of prescription-painkiller ODs
Philadelphia has long had a robust treatment system that draws patients from as far away as Puerto Rico, although methadone maintenance programs are now close to capacity, Lamb said. Pennsylvania law on … Heroin varies from batch to batch, raising … Read more on Philly.com

PMA – the ecstasy and the agony
This means that consuming only slightly more than the amount needed to achieve the high a user wants can be enough to elicit the toxic effects, making accidentally overdosing easy to do. These toxic effects can include a rapid rise in body temperature, … Read more on The Guardian

Question by nightdreamer: has anyone been refered to methadone program?
for tramadol abuse in particular? and any other people on or have been on methadone program? I would like the doctors to have control over my dosage so i don’t overdose at home with tramal or oxy contin and so i dont have to go stuffing around for it. thanks

Best answer:

Answer by Lui
I have a friend on methadone. He goes to a clinic and they give him the dose and he has to take it there. Same as if he goes to a pharmacy, they do not allow you to take it with you or self dose, it’s something you take there and then, at a set dose.    Read more...