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Police Investigate Drug Overdose Of 6 Year Old Girl In Luzerne County
White Haven Police are investigating the methadone overdose of a 6 year old girl. It happened at an apartment on Main Street on July 22. The girl survived the overdose but now police have questions about the timeline of events from when the child … Read more on PA home page

Police investigating couple after young daughter injested methadone
The time of the computer search might indicate how much time passed between when the parents discovered the overdose and when they called 911 for help, the affidavit says. Mr. Skonieczny told police that his daughter drank methadone about 7 p.m., but … Read more on Scranton Times-Tribune

Long-acting Pain Drugs No Longer Approved for Treating Moderate Pain
Each year, 16,000 people die of overdoses that include prescription opioids— and the extended-release and long-acting drugs such as Oxycontin or methadone are disproportionately responsible for such deaths. While currently labeled to treat moderate to … Read more on TIME (blog)

Tommy Z goes crazy

My ex Fiancee loses his mind and threatens to overdose on methadone because I wont give him my Gerber knife and the iPad.

More Opioid Dependence Treatment Needed
More Opioid Dependence Treatment Needed. Aug. 6, 2013 — A new report from Simon Fraser University researcher Bohdan Nosyk calls for the expansion of heroin and opioid medical treatment to stem the increase of overdose deaths. Read more on Science Daily (press release)

Prosecutors seek death penalty in doctor's patient overdose trial
… whose 21-year-old son, Anthony, died of a drug overdose in 2007 said she was pleased the state was pursuing the death penalty against the man who wrote her son prescriptions for massive quantities of oxycodone, roxycodone, methadone and Xanax for … Read more on Palm Beach Post

Vaccinating Cocaine Use Away
There's behavioral interventions, methadone maintenance for heroin users, nicotine patches for smokers, antabuse for acoholics, but while all of these are effective in a minority of users, they aren't effective in all. Many require … In the case of … Read more on Scientific American (blog)    Read more...

Report: Baby died from drug-laced breast milk
However, in January 2013, Ryder's death was declared a homicide when toxicology results revealed his cause of death as “acute alprazolam, methadone, and oxymorphone intoxication,” according to the Sacramento County Coroner's report. “Over the … Read more on HLNtv.com

Northern California baby died of drug overdose from breast milk
Ryder Salmen died September 2012 after overdosing on a fatal mix of Xanax, methadone and the painkiller Opana. Court documents said the infant's mother had been warned five months earlier to stop breastfeeding because of high levels of methadone … Read more on San Jose Mercury News

Woman charged after man's apparent overdose death
A Hamilton woman is being charged with giving methadone to a man who died of an apparent overdose last week. The Ravalli Republic reports ( http://bit.ly/1dmKoPn) 28-year-old Erica Ann Cummings appeared before Ravalli County Justice of the Peace … Read more on Montana Standard

Florida may seek death for doctor charged with overdose deaths
The two counts of murder stem from Christensen prescribing oxycodone, methadone and anti-anxiety drugs to two patients who later overdosed. Attorney Grey Tesh, who represented Christensen until last month, said it could be difficult for the state to … Read more on UPI.com

Al Jourgensen Wraps Up Ministry, Gets Ready For Life as a Superhero
The book, Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen, tells the wild, outrageous story of Jourgensen's nearly 33-year rollercoaster ride through the music industry, during which he survived over a decade of habitual drug abuse that included … Read more on Yahoo! Canada Music (blog)

Addicts urged to join life-saving drug scheme
Naloxone can temporarily reverse the effect of overdose from opiate substances such as heroin, methadone or dihydrocodeine. The temporary reversal can provide more time for an ambulance crew to arrive and treatment to be given. NHS Lanarkshire's … Read more on Glasgow Evening Times