Palm Beach County Judge Considers Bail for Ex-Doctor Charged With Patient

Palm Beach County judge considers bail for ex-doctor charged with patient
The case began last July with the major indictment of a former Palm Beach County doctor charged with first-degree murder for the overdose deaths of two patients, and 89 other felony drug crimes. But state prosecutors this month amended the charges …
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Potential Hydrocodone-Combination Product Rescheduling Sparks Debate
When it comes to the use of hydrocodone-combination products in the treatment of chronic pain, federal regulators think patients need to be protected from themselves—and the physicians who treat them. At least that's what some in the health care …
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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

‘Pain patch party’ turns deadly as 2 Athens men die getting high on powerful … – Chattanooga Times Free Press


Chattanooga Times Free Press

'Pain patch party' turns deadly as 2 Athens men die getting high on powerful
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Different brands and dosages of Fentanyl patches, marked with warnings about non-precribed uses in St. Louis. Fentanyl is a narcotic that is typically administered to people in chronic pain, … Fentanyl was responsible for 21,196 emergency room visits

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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
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 to end. “For a month and a

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

‘Pain patch party’ turns deadly as 2 Athens men die getting high on powerful … – Chattanooga Times Free Press


Chattanooga Times Free Press

'Pain patch party' turns deadly as 2 Athens men die getting high on powerful
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Different brands and dosages of Fentanyl patches, marked with warnings about non-precribed uses in St. Louis. Fentanyl is a narcotic that is typically administered to people in chronic pain, … Fentanyl was responsible for 21,196 emergency room visits

and more »

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

and more »

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