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
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Past and present collide as poets mark elusive time
The Australian In a poem such as Appellations, he uses this device very effectively to create, via syntactically connected increments, a stunning conclusion. A sense of narrative, though not necessarily in long sentences, is also the main appeal in poems as serious … |
State Highlights: Home Care Workers’ Pay And Medicaid Budgets; Calif. Mental … – Kaiser Health News
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State Highlights: Home Care Workers' Pay And Medicaid Budgets; Calif. Mental …
Kaiser Health News 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 … |
Pain patch blamed in boy’s death: Homicide investigation launched in 3rd … – Chattanooga Times Free Press
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Pain patch blamed in boy's death: Homicide investigation launched in 3rd …
Chattanooga Times Free Press It is the fourth most commonly overdosed painkiller behind oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methadone. • Fentanyl … A physician at Highland Pediatrics said fentanyl can be used to treat children, but typically only in cases of intense pain. "It's just … |
Methadone clinic cuts two dozen patients — More crime, more robberies, more drug use. Some say those will be the consequences of the two dozen people cut from Spokane County’s Methadone Treatment Prog…
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