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Methadone Addiction: State Panel Weighs Cap on Addiction Treatment – Press Herald

Methadone Addiction: State panel weighs cap on addiction treatment – Press Herald


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State panel weighs cap on addiction treatment
Press Herald
The limit on drug addiction treatments is sure to be among the cuts that generate a backlash if lawmakers formally take them up early next year. Suboxone and methadone are prescribed to about 15000 Mainers fighting addiction to prescription painkillers
MaineCare Director Proposes Limits on Opiate Addiction Treatment DrugMPBN News

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Strang: No Plans for Safe-Injection Sites in NS – TheChronicleHerald.ca

Methadone Addiction: Strang: No plans for safe-injection sites in NS – TheChronicleHerald.ca


Globe and Mail
Strang: No plans for safe-injection sites in NS
TheChronicleHerald.ca
The Direction 180 methadone clinic in Halifax has about 200 regular users, while another government methadone clinic in HRM has about 70. In the vast majority of cases prescription drugs is the addiction being treated. By comparison, Insite sees as
Vancouver's injection clinic gets Supreme Court reprieveToronto Star
Addicts, advocates cheer as Insite survives SCOC rulingCTV.ca
Christie Blatchford on Insite: With addicts, nothing works perfectly, but National Post (blog)
The Province
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Methadone Addiction: Is Methadone Really Such a Killer? – Huffington Post UK

Is Methadone Really Such a Killer?
Huffington Post UK
People take issue with methadone for another reason, one that underlies much of the rhetoric: they object to drug dependence of any kind, and hence do not consider methadone maintenance a proper solution to opiate addiction.

Methadone Addiction: Drug Treatment Clinic Closures Raise Overdose Concerns – Enterprise News

Methadone Addiction: Drug treatment clinic closures raise overdose concerns – Enterprise News


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Drug treatment clinic closures raise overdose concerns
Enterprise News
The drug is usually given through monthly injections as an alternative to more widely available drugs like methadone and Suboxone, which also help treat addiction but can be abused. According to Vivitrol manufacturer Alkermes' website,
Weymouth, Quincy drug treatment clinics may closeThe Patriot Ledger
Loss of drug treatment clinics rattles staff and patientsTaunton Daily Gazette

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Methadone Addiction: Secretary of State opens enterprise to aid addicts – Burton Mail


Burton Mail
Secretary of State opens enterprise to aid addicts
Burton Mail
Mr Duncan-Smith said that for a long time emphasis had been put on maintenance of addicts instead of recovery. “The ultimate object must be recovery,” he said. “People go into programmes and are then staying in them for 10 to 15 years. “Methadone is a

Methadone Addiction: Councillor Pays a Visit to Methadone Clinic – Waterloo Record

Methadone Addiction: Councillor pays a visit to methadone clinic – Waterloo Record

Councillor pays a visit to methadone clinic
Waterloo Record
KITCHENER — The operators of the city's second methadone clinic, located near King Street East and Sheldon Avenue, are trying hard to better integrate the addiction treatment centre into the surrounding neighbourhood, Coun. Daniel Glenn-Graham says.
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Methadone Addiction: Methadone clinic dismissed from Granju wrongful death suit – Knoxville News Sentinel

Methadone clinic dismissed from Granju wrongful death suit
Knoxville News Sentinel
Harper and Houser have denied giving the teenager methadone, which is an opiate-based drug used to treat opiate addiction. At least one witness interviewed by KCSO said Henry Granju had ingested the opiate painkiller, Roxicodone, the day before the

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Methadone Addiction: Matt Hardy Goes to WWE Rehab: A Message from One Addict to Another – Bleacher Report

Health News : Alcoholism – HIV/AIDS and Addiction Alarming Situation – News on Sunday

Methadone Addiction: Health news : Alcoholism – HIV/AIDS and addiction Alarming situation – News On Sunday

Health news : Alcoholism – HIV/AIDS and addiction Alarming situation
News On Sunday
Dr Appalsamy Appadoo underscores that there are 4578 drug addicts (4307 men and 271 women) following methadone treatment from the Harm Reduction Unit of the Ministry of Health which also aims to encourage drug addicts to use new syringes.

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Methadone Addiction: Drug Treatment, Russian-Style – Big Think (blog)


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Drug Treatment, Russian-Style
Big Think (blog)
The Afghan heroin trade has caused an epidemic of addiction across Russia and government policy is often ineffective. Methadone, for example, which is used in the west to wean users off their addiction, is illegal across Russia.
In Russia, Harsh Remedy for Addiction Gains FavorNew York Times

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Few Treatment Options for Afghans as Drug Use Rises – South Asian News Agency

Methadone Addiction: Few treatment options for Afghans as drug use rises – South Asian News Agency


New York Times
Few treatment options for Afghans as drug use rises
South Asian News Agency
The ministry undermined the country's sole opiate substitution effort, a pilot program run by Médecins du Monde that administers methadone to 70 addicts. The program has been strongly endorsed by the World Health Organization as well as by participants
Few Treatment Options for Afghans as Drug Use RisesNew York Times

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