Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM
Would seem to make more sense to substitute medical marijuana for methadone to treat addicts. Methadone can be just as lethal as the drug for which it's being substituted. I saw far more economic and personal damage from alcohol than from pot during my …

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City’s methadone funds could cover broader addiction plan – Boston Globe

City's methadone funds could cover broader addiction plan
Boston Globe
The city clinic, on Frontage Road in the South End, has operated for 40 years, since methadone first won approval as a treatment for heroin addiction. Methadone reduces cravings for heroin and helps stave off withdrawal symptoms. The drug was a giant
BPHS proposes closing sole public methadone clinicDaily Free Press (subscription)
Boston officials looking to transfer operations of only city-run methadone clinicMassLive.com

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Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics

Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Many patients take methadone, an opiate that's safer than heroin, for months or years. It doesn't cure addiction, but relieves withdrawal symptoms and allows many people to function and work without getting high. While Habit OPCO follows up with …
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Novel Nonopioid Approach Promising for Opioid Dependence
"We were trying to find a way of dealing with opiate withdrawal and facilitate people to the next stage of addiction treatment," lead author Gregory Rudolf, MD, from the Swedish Addiction Recovery Service, in Seattle, Washington, told Medscape Medical …
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Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) — Every morning, Sergei Kislov takes the bus to the rundown outskirts of this port city for the methadone doses that keep him off heroin without suffering withdrawal. Now that Russia has taken over Crimea, the trips are about …
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Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

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.

Methadone Uses – Google News

Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe

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 …

Methadone Uses – Google News

Past and present collide as poets mark elusive time – The Australian

Heroin Hits Close to Home

Heroin hits close to home
It could be your boyfriend, whose behavior recently changed, your middle school science teacher, or your own child. Here are two stories of how the heroin epidemic has hit … Price has been drug-free for four months but said his two overdoses took …
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Belington Couple Pleads Guilty to Child Neglect Resulting in Death
A Belington couple pleaded guilty to the methadone overdose death of their 23-month-old child on Tuesday. Ida Lee Evans, 31, and David Lee Delauder, 37, pleaded guilty to child neglect resulting in death and conspiracy before Circuit Court Judge Alan D.
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Not-So-Quick Fix
But what if your child is a drug addict? … For proof that drug addiction is still largely misunderstood by the public, you need look no further than the recent fatal overdoses of actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Glee star Cory Monteith. … and …
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Crimea Side-Effect: Addicts Deprived of Methadone – U-T San Diego

Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone – U-T San Diego

Crimea sideeffect: Addicts deprived of methadone
U-T San Diego
Across the Black Sea peninsula, some 800 heroin addicts and other needle-drug users take part in methadone programs, seen as an important part of efforts to curb HIV infections by taking the patients away from hypodermic needles that can spread the …

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Zohydro: Ticking Time Bomb? – Daily Beast

Zohydro: Ticking Time Bomb?
Daily Beast
The FDA—whose own advisory committee barely approved the drug in an 11-2 vote—claims that if used correctly the drug is safe and effective and may reduce the risk of toxic effects on the liver, as it does not contain the acetaminophen found in other

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Methadone Side Effects – Google News

Not-So-Quick Fix – LA Magazine

Suboxone Might Be the Most Effective Way to Beat Heroin Addiction. So Why Is

Suboxone might be the most effective way to beat heroin addiction. So why is
Methadone has been around for decades, but Suboxone has emerged as a safer alternative, easier to administer, far less addictive and with fewer side effects. "If people are on some sort of a treatment program, there's about an 80 percent chance that …
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