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OxyContin continues to devastate Appalachia
These drugs include codeine, oxycodone (e.g., OxyContin, Percodan, Percocet), morphine, hydromorphone (e.g. Demerol and Dilaudid), propoxyphene (e.g. Darvon and Darvocet) and methadone (e.g. Dolophine and methadose). The quantity of prescription …
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Veterans Study: Prescribed Opioids Trigger Chronic Use
Since the 1990s both prescriptions and abuse of opioid drugs for veterans has steadily increased, with the fatal overdose rate among VA patients nearly double the national average. Prescriptions for four opiates—hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone, and …
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Alcoholic Liver Disease (Understanding Disease: Gastroenterology & Urology) — Gastroenterology: Alcoholic Liver Disease (Understanding Disease Series)-Alcoholic liver disease is a chronic inflammation of the liver caused by excessive i…

Scottish Parliament debates Promoting Family Recovery Across Scotland
I expect that other speakers might go into more detail about specific issues around alcohol and drugs, such as naloxone, minimum unit pricing, methadone or new psychoactive substances, but I really want to concentrate on the theme of families and their …
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Question by Sinomi: Getting over morphine addiction?
Hi, I have been prescribed morphine time release pills (60 mg) 2 times a day for my leg, as I was in an accident a year ago and it still gives me pain occasionally when the weather is bad and when I put too much stress on it.

However I do know I am addicted, and It didnt bother me honestly since I never questioned it, and never wanted to think of not being dependant on it.
However I recently met a man who has changed my life in many ways. we have been dating for almost 6 months and I honestly think hes the one for me (not getting into a different topic but, he makes me feel i want to better myself)
I visit him as he lives in a different state but the biggest thing keeping me from seeing him for long periods is a very stupid reason. my medication.
I am scared of being without it as I go through withdrawals, but yet I do want to get over my addiction, I hate having him see me this way, even though I do have pain i feel bad i’m always out of it because of that, or worrying i’ll run out and have to go back home. its beginning to strain us and I dont want to lose him.    Read more...

Those at high overdose risk more likely to use prescribed opioids than … – ModernHealthcare.com (blog)

Those at high overdose risk more likely to use prescribed opioids than … ModernHealthcare.com (blog) Overdoses from opioid drugs during that time more than tripled, from 4,030 in 1999 to 16,651 in 2010. The steady increase in overdose deaths has been attributed to a large boom in opioid drug sales, which include oxycodone, hydrocodone and methadone.

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3-Year-Old Dies; Police Suspect Abuse — Police said a 3-year-old Indianapolis girl is clinically dead, being kept on a ventilator so her organs can be donated, and they suspect abuse caused her inj…

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Question by sbound_40: has anyone lost a close family member to drug overdose?
i have lost two, well a very dear friend and my cousin, her and i were like sisters growing up. we lost contact for a few years but she called me out of the blue one day, i knew it was her as soon as i heard her voice. she talked about ALOTE of things that were troubling her and told me how much she always looked up to me. i felt sorry for her hearing all the terrible things she had been through. the last thing she said to me was “keep me talking, somethings wrong w/ my heart” then the phone died. i tried calling back for an hour or so and then my dad called and told me she was gone!!! I WAS DEVASTATED!!!!!!! I LOVED THAT GIRL!! shewas a recovered heroine addict but overdosed on morophine patches, where the hell do those things come from anyway? and how did she get her hands on them?    Read more...

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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