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The Challenges of Developing Registries for Small Patient Advocacy Groups
The Challenges of Developing Registries for Small Patient Advocacy Groups — PatientCrossroads is a for profit organization that helps disease organizations — be they patient advocacy groups, pharmaceutical companies, or medical rese…
Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM
Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM
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Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM Methadone entered the public consciousness in the 1950s when American doctors began using it to treat heroin addiction. Today, about 500,000 people are participating in methadone treatment programs nationwide, including several hundred locally. |
Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe
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Boston to shutter drug treatment facility
Boston Globe In a 6-to-1 vote last week, Boston's Board of Health decided to end more than 40 years of city-run methadone treatment, which uses the narcotic to wean addicts from heroin and other opiates. The addiction services will now be handled by Community … |
Past and present collide as poets mark elusive time – The Australian
Addicts Seek Prescription Heroin to Keep Them Off Illegal Street Drugs
Addicts seek prescription heroin to keep them off illegal street drugs
The second, the Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness, or SALOME, began in 2011. The study is comparing the effectiveness of hydromorphone, a synthetic drug approved for use to control pain, and pharmaceutical heroin in treating …
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Medical Marijuana Lawyer Tips #2 – Carrying Medical Marijuana, Driving, and Weapons — Medical Marijuana Lawyer Tips – Carrying Medicine and Driving William S Kroger gives tips based on how his past clients were caught and how not to fall withi…
PressLive – Tonix Pharmaceuticals Health Canada Clearance to Study Treatment for Fibromyalgia
PressLive – Tonix Pharmaceuticals Health Canada Clearance to Study Treatment for Fibromyalgia — http://www.GLX.com http://www.tonixpharma.com Full Release : http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tonix-pharmaceuticals-receives-health-canada-clearance-to-study…
Oakland a welcome haven to city bees
A construction crew called him the day before to extract a hive that had metastasized into the facade of the former mortuary and temporary methadone clinic. Hive and wood had become one. … Beekeeping used to take some convincing. Now, he said, "A lot …
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Failure Talk about Getting Over Drugs, Reuniting, and Oh Yeah, MAKING A NEW …
Many of their songs were written in the throes of drug addiction—songs like “The Nurse Who Loved Me,” and “Stuck On You,” recall treatment in a methadone clinic and a lifestyle dictated by deadly vices. The band broke up in … Flash forward 17 years …
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Pests: 'It Is Brutal. but It Is Authentic. I Feel Ethical, Clean About It'
Pests: 'It is brutal. But it is authentic. I feel ethical, clean about it'
Rape, abuse, addiction, squalor … in Pests, Vivienne Franzmann brings the lives of women prisoners to the Royal Court. But it's no exercise in poverty tourism Vivienne Franzmann's summary of her new play, Pests , begins bleakly and gets grimmer, as the plot brushes together pretty much every conceivable strand of social deprivation into a catastrophic tangle. It stars two sisters, young women …
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Trumbull coroner one of few who gives specific numbers to overdose crisis
Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk, Trumbull County coroner, says people often ask him whether overdose deaths are the result of a “bad batch” of heroin. He frequently has to explain that it’s actually the reverse.
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Potential Hydrocodone-Combination Product Rescheduling Sparks Debate
Potential Hydrocodone-Combination Product Rescheduling Sparks Debate
When it comes to the use of hydrocodone-combination products in the treatment of chronic pain, federal regulators think patients need to be protected from themselves—and the physicians who treat them. At least that's what some in the health care …
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Heroin 'filled the hole': For kid from suburbs, pot was first stop on road to …
Lewis completed rehab and started taking methadone. But after six months, he said, he realized he'd replaced one addiction with another, so he entered … As the number of people who use heroin has risen in recent years, authorities are seeing the …
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