Preventing Avoidable Opioid-Related Deaths Top Priority for Pain Medicine Field
Methadone Addiction: Preventing Avoidable Opioid-Related Deaths Top Priority For Pain Medicine Field
Deaths related to prescription opioid therapy are under intense scrutiny, prompting those in pain medicine-clinicians, patient advocates, and regulators-to understand the causes behind avoidable mortality in legitimately treated patients. Studies reporting on statistics, causes, and adverse events involving opioid treatment are now available in a special supplement of Pain Medicine, a journal …
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Methadone Addiction: Suit filed in Gregg jail death
A lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Federal District Court in Marshall on behalf of a Gilmer woman who died while incarcerated in the Gregg County Jail. Amy Lynn Cowling, 33, died while jailed on Dec. 29, 2010.
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Methadone Addiction: Russia defies growing consensus with declaration of ‘total war on drugs’
Under new laws being drawn up addicts would be forced into treatment or jailed, and dealers ‘treated like serial killers’ Drug dealers are to be “treated like serial killers” and could be sent to forced labour camps under harsh laws being drawn up by Russia’s Kremlin-controlled parliament. Boris Gryzlov, the speaker of the state duma, the lower house, said a “total war on drugs” was needed to …
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