Dr. Kathleen Foley on the History and Future Goals for Cancer Pain Management

Dr. Kathleen Foley on the History and Future Goals for Cancer Pain Management — Kathleen M. Foley, MD, an Attending Neurologist in the Pain & Palliative Care Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the history and th…


Alex Neil says NHS is continuing to deliver value for money as prescriptions
The cost of prescribing methadone alone has increased by almost £4 million, the Scottish Conservatives have highlighted. Mr Neil said: "During difficult economic times no-one should see cost as a barrier to accessing medical treatment, especially those …
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Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics – Boston Globe

Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe


Boston Globe

Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Boston Globe
Methadone is often stigmatized, he acknowledged, but for some addicts — when it's used in combination with counseling and other treatments — the substitute drug makes a dramatic difference in their lives. “Methadone will allow you to go from a

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Methadone Addiction – Google News

It takes more than methadone to treat addiction – Boston Globe

It takes more than methadone to treat addiction
Boston Globe
I write as the former director of the methadone clinic originally operated by the Tufts-New England Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry and later by Bay Cove Human Services (“Drug clinic may shut,” Page A1, April 7). Brian MacQuarrie's excellent …

Methadone Addiction – Google News

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

Parents Don’t Want Methadone Clinic Opening Next to Grade School – Globalnews.ca

Parents don’t want methadone clinic opening next to grade school – Globalnews.ca

Parents don't want methadone clinic opening next to grade school
Globalnews.ca
… aren't allowed to open within 80 metres of a school. “I've asked staff to come back with a report saying, well, do we license these?” Tovey said. “Do we have some kind of appropriate buffer from sensitive land uses, which would be, you know, a

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Methadone Uses – Google News

Brunswick not exempt from New England opiate epidemic – The Bowdoin Orient

Brunswick not exempt from New England opiate epidemic
The Bowdoin Orient
Treatment for opiate addiction generally includes detoxification, followed by counseling and the controlled use of medications like Methadone or Buprenorphine (often referred to by the brand name Suboxone). These medications act on the same parts of

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Methadone Uses – Google News

Crimea Side-Effect: Addicts Deprived of Methadone – Anchorage Daily News

Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone – Anchorage Daily News

Crimea sideeffect: Addicts deprived of methadone
Anchorage Daily News
In this photo taken Tuesday, April 1, 2014, Sergei, a patient of treatment for drug addiction, poses at a bus stop with an advert reading "Rehabilitation of drug and alcohol addicts" in Sevastopol, Crimea. Across the Black Sea peninsula, some 800

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Methadone Side Effects – Google News

Crimean side-effect: Heroin addicts deprived of methadone because Russia … – Edmonton Journal


Edmonton Journal

Crimean sideeffect: Heroin addicts deprived of methadone because Russia
Edmonton Journal
While methadone doesn't have the same euphoric effect as heroin, it weans addicts off the drug by blocking the pain, aches and chills of withdrawal. In preparation, Kislov has already started reducing his daily intake of methadone by about 10

Methadone Side Effects – Google News

Parents Don’t Want Methadone Clinic Opening Next to Grade School – Globalnews.ca

Parents don’t want methadone clinic opening next to grade school – Globalnews.ca

Parents don't want methadone clinic opening next to grade school
Globalnews.ca
… aren't allowed to open within 80 metres of a school. “I've asked staff to come back with a report saying, well, do we license these?” Tovey said. “Do we have some kind of appropriate buffer from sensitive land uses, which would be, you know, a

and more »

Methadone Uses – Google News

Brunswick not exempt from New England opiate epidemic – The Bowdoin Orient

Brunswick not exempt from New England opiate epidemic
The Bowdoin Orient
Treatment for opiate addiction generally includes detoxification, followed by counseling and the controlled use of medications like Methadone or Buprenorphine (often referred to by the brand name Suboxone). These medications act on the same parts of

and more »

Methadone Uses – Google News

EMA to Carry Out Four Safety Reviews

EMA to carry out four safety reviews
The PRAC also upheld a request from the Norwegian medicines agency NOMA to review oral methadone medicines containing povidone following a number of reports of kidney failure in people who abuse the drug. These oral medicines are meant to be used in …
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