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Methadone Overdose: Warren to vote on extending methadone moratorium – VillageSoup Belfast
Warren — Selectmen are expected to vote on whether to extend the moratorium on methadone clinics in the town during the … order the town to treat CRC’s proposed clinic as a permitted use and grant CRC’s request for reasonable accommodation under …
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Methadone Overdose: Lawsuit filed in Henry Granju’s death – Knoxville News Sentinel
The case of the overdose death of the teenage son of a Knoxville blogger could test the bounds of state law on the responsibility of a legal purveyor of a good for its illegal use. That Katie … Granju a fatal dose of methadone and then refusing for …
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Methadone Overdose: A General in the Drug War
The neuroscientist who leads the National Institute on Drug Abuse is facing a powerful enemy: prescription drug abuse.
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Methadone Overdose: Celebsin60Secs: Rick Fox eliminated / Bret Michaels Tish Cyrus affair / andy irons dead

Idiot Goes to Fake E3 bit.ly www.mahalo.com Three-time NBA champion Rick Fox is the latest castoff on ”Dancing With the Stars.” Despite receiving high marks from the judges, Fox became the latest contestant eliminated on the ABC reality show on Tuesday night. During ”Dancing With the Stars,” ABC announced the all-star lineup for its latest celeb reality show, ”Skating With the Stars.” Among the contestants who’ll compete on the ice: Vince Neil, Bethenny Frankel and actor and rapper Brandon Mychal Smith. Bret Michaels denies reports he had an affair with Miley Cyrus’ mom, Tish Cyrus, while she was married to Billy Ray Cyrus. A rep for Michaels is quoted by the New York Post’s “Page Six” as saying the rumored affair is “untrue.” Britney Spears’ producer Dr. Luke tells ”The Hollywood Reporter” that Spears’ seventh studio album will be released in “early 2011.” No comment from Spears’ record company, Jive Records. ”People Magazine” reports that three-time world champion surfer Andy Irons was found dead in a Dallas hotel room on Tuesday. The ”Honolulu Star” says Irons’ death is “being investigated as a possible methadone overdose.” Creative Commons Images: www.flickr.com www.flickr.com    Read more...

Methadone Overdose: Calgary Dad Sentenced For Toddler’s Methadone Death

A Calgary father will spend two years in prison for his role in his daughter’s death. On Tuesday, Jonathan Hope received his sentence for failing to provide the necessities of life to his 16-month-old daughter Summer. Summer died in August 2006 after drinking her father’s methadone. Neither Hope nor, the girl’s mother, Lisa Guerin attempted to get any medical help for their dying daughter until the next morning. Before being sentenced, Hope told the court “I wish I could go back and change everything…I miss my daughter…I know I will never get over it.” Members of Hope’s family were in court for the sentencing. They feel the punishment handed down is fair. “There’s nothing you can argue with,” says Corrine Vooys, a cousin of Hope’s. “It’s really hard to hear that, the remarks made by Jonathan were very direct, maybe a little hard to hear but they are true.”    Read more...

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Methadone Overdose: Family disputes Irons’s autopsy
Andy Irons’s family disputes the results of his autopsy, disagreeing with claims he died from a combination of cardiac arrest and drug use.
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Methadone Overdose: Symptoms, Side Effects and Stupor

In first 2 weeks after his release from the hospital BJ was recuperating nicely from his inadvertent methadone overdose, renal failure and septicemia. Then last week he came down with yet another urinary tract infection and spent 36 hours in a morphine stupor due to another prescribing error. He was also administered the “Mini Mental State Exam” to baseline his dementia. The results were shocking and bummed me out, but then I spied a few "first signs of spring" out in the yard and I’m feeling better!

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Methadone Overdose: Causes of Increase in Opioid Deaths Probed – MedPage Today
Point out that researchers described physician prescribing errors, patient nonadherence — especially mixing with other drugs and alcohol — and nonmedical uses as among the risk factors for opioid deaths. Methadone appears to be involved in a large …
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Methadone Overdose: 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 the journal Pain …
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Methadone Overdose: WSAZ Web Exclusive Interview with WV State Trooper Investigating the Death of a Toddler by Babysitters.

WSAZ Web Exclusive interview with the investigating officer in the case of a 3 yr. old who died after ingesting Methadone given by his babysitter who claims she thought it was Benadryl.

Methadone Overdose: Family disputes Irons’s autopsy
Andy Irons’s family disputes the results of his autopsy, disagreeing with claims he died from a combination of cardiac arrest and drug use.
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