Methadone Uses: Canada’s Patchwork of Drug Treatment: Where Do You Turn When You’ve Hit Rock … – Ottawa Citizen
Canada’s patchwork of drug treatment: Where do you turn when you’ve hit rock … – Ottawa Citizen
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Canada's patchwork of drug treatment: Where do you turn when you've hit rock …
Ottawa Citizen Methadone, for instance, has been used to treat heroin addicts. Because it is an opiate substitute, it helps to prevent the onset of withdrawal symptoms, while also blocking the euphoric effects of heroin, according to a Health Canada study examining … |
Bitter Pills series: Prescription oversight lax as overdoses tick up – Fayetteville Observer
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Bitter Pills series: Prescription oversight lax as overdoses tick up
Fayetteville Observer Landers said he walked out of Gootman's clinic once a month for about five months with a prescription for 90 Percocet pills and 90 methadone, a narcotic used to treat pain or to wean people off other opiates. Landers would keep the Percocet, sell the … |
Study backs more use in Wisconsin of life-saving heroin-overdose drug – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Study backs more use in Wisconsin of life-saving heroin-overdose drug
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel But it's against the law for an individual with a prescription for naloxone, commonly known by its brand name Narcan, to use the drug on a friend or someone else overdosing on other opiates such as morphine, oxycodone and methadone. A recent report … |
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