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Heroin at Home: A Community Discussion — Heroin and opiate use in Minnesota has recently hit some all-time highs. As heroin and opiates dealt throughout the state become more pure there is an alarmi…

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There was a 28 per cent increase in the number of overdose deaths as a result of polydrug use, from 168 in 2010 to 215 in 2011. The drugs most implicated in polydrug use were alcohol, methadone, antidepressants and benzodiazepines, which are sedatives …
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Fighting addiction with a pill has potential for abuse, officials say
In 2000, Congress relaxed rules governing the prescribing of opioids to treat addictions to heroin or prescription painkillers, creating a key distinction between methadone, which has been used to treat heroin addiction since the 1960s, and buprenorphine.
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Fighting addiction with a pill has potential for abuse, officials say
However, its ceiling is much lower than those other opiate-derived drugs, making its euphoric effect and risks of dependency and overdose considerably lower. The drug comes in the form of a tablet or a dissolvable strip. Combined with traditional …
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Judge: Risenburg's statements can be used
Risenburg is charged with killing his wife, Beth Risenburg, with an overdose of methadone, a drug used to wean people off of heroin. … Jason Risenburg had a prescription for methadone pills for about a year leading up to his wife's death, Kiddey said.
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Question by Sharon: I have a serious disease that causes me to need narcotic pain killers every day. Do you think I am an Addict?
I have been on heavy narcotics for the past 10 years because of a painful bone disease and neurological degeneration. I have avascular necrosis from having to take large amounts of solu medrol a steroid after a serious head injury.This caused the blood flow to my knees, hip and ankle joints to stop and the bones to die, My knees no longer bend at all any more. Because of that I walk with my hips and my back has been deformed into a major sway back causing pressure on my discs and nerves causing neuropathy in my right knee, leg and foot. It feels like there is barbed wire wrapped around my knee and ankle and like my foot is being tortured by electric shocks. Now I have a pinched nerve in my left arm causing pain in my left shoulder, upper arm, elbow and wrist. I am now confined to a wheelchair or electric scooter. I am not a cry baby and have done everything, steroid injections, physical therapy, surgery, everything any doctor has ever asked me to do. The doctors all admit the pain must be severe but if someone has never had to depend on morphine, methadone or hydrocodone to get though the day they have no clue what what I am living with. I have a pain specialist and have never had to ask for more then I am allowed a month, gone to the ER for extra, seen more then one doctor at a time to get my medicine but I still get treated like a criminal. Because I have weak legs I fell and knocked myself out. My husband called the ambulance and at the hospital they treated me like an overdose patient even after they found no excess of medication in my blood and counted all my pills and found I was to the day with my medication. I am not am addict. I am dependent on the narcotics for any quality of life but without them I would be bedridden and most likely suicidal. I just want people to understand. Even doctors and nurses. I am not getting stoned or high. I am not pain free nor do I expect to be.I do not drive under the influence. I just want some quality of life. Invent something that removes pain other then a narcotic and I will take it gladly.    Read more...

Dangers of Overdosing — Addiction Treatment Professional Andrew Spanswick discusses the topic of overdosing and how often it is easier to do so in relapse. KLEAN Radio is a live, we…

Minnesota man charged in woman's fatal heroin overdose
The 22-year-old Ham Lake, Minn., man was charged Friday with third-degree murder after allegedly providing heroin to a 28-year-old woman who died last year after overdosing on the substance, according to a criminal complaint filed in Anoka County …
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Fighting addiction with a pill has potential for abuse, officials say
However, its ceiling is much lower than those other opiate-derived drugs, making its euphoric effect and risks of dependency and overdose considerably lower. The drug comes in the form of a tablet or a dissolvable … Buprenorphine is a medication …
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Ex-users help heroin addicts out of death spiral
Patients seeking to recover are sometimes prescribed methadone, a synthetic narcotic taken once a day “to stop withdrawal symptoms and reduce opiate cravings.” Some patients are put on … Relapse often deadly. Many overdose victims never see it coming.
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Meth, heroin, coke shoot up in city
And then we went to the methadone clinic.” … And charges are pending against Lucas Zuehlke, 30, of Coloma and Nycole Creed, 33, of Wausau on accusations they were involved in the March 11 overdose death of Thomas Knickerbocker, 30, of Wausau.
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Gibbons 'very disappointed' in not-guilty verdict in heroin overdose
EDWARDVILLE – State's Attorney Tom Gibbons said while he is disappointed in the Angela Halliday verdict, his office will continue to prosecute heroin overdose cases. Halliday, 29, of Moro, was found not guilty of aggravated battery Wednesday in a …
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Coroner: Another Quad City baby died from methadone exposure, no charges
He says there was no reason for methadone to be in her system eight months later. “It's a case I'll never forget. It's not normal for nine-month-old babies to die from methadone toxicity,” Gustafson said, adding he has no idea how the baby ingested the …
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