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Methadone Overdose: State, Grand Rapids clinics see growing need for subsidized methadone treatment for low-income drug addicts – MLive.com
“Methadone is the gold standard of treatment for helping people … “I felt like my options were death or to use heroin.” VanderLeest’s life became finding ways to get the $ 100-$ 150 per day needed to buy heroin. She admits to stealing, begging …
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Methadone Overdose: Prominent Doctor’s Painkiller Prescribing Under Fire
At first, Dr. Robert Zuniga thought it was a typo. The prescription for 4,200 methadone tablets a month was “ridiculously high,” he recalled last week. The narcotic had been prescribed… Read more »
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Methadone Overdose: Did Audi rip off Eminem’s Chrysler ad? Compare the videos
A German auto commercial is hitting a little too close to home for some folks in Eminem’s camp. Eight Mile Style, the Ferndale company that handles song licensing for the Detroit rapper, alleges that a new Audi ad uses an unauthorized interpretation of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself.”
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Methadone Overdose: Prominent Doctor’s Painkiller Prescribing Under Fire – Albuquerque Journal (subscription)

Prominent Doctor's Painkiller Prescribing Under Fire Albuquerque Journal (subscription) The board accused Maron, 72, of endangering the public in prescribing narcotics, such as methadone, and imposed an emergency suspension of his license in late May. Maron, who is also under scrutiny by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, …

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Methadone Overdose: Substance abuse signs
Oxycodone, oxycontin, xanax, methadone, tramadol, percocet, vicodin, Ritalin (adderall), methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin. This litany of drugs is all too familiar to Chuck Boyer, head of the Seneca County Drug Task Force METRICH Enforcement Unit.
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Methadone Overdose: Canby Student Died Mixing Prescription Pills
After Canby High School senior Jim Jones died of an accidental prescription drug overdose, his mother is sharing their story to educate parents and teens.
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Question by HeyHeyHeyyyyy: My dad died of cardiac arrest related to an accidental drug overdose and I really need to know why and how?
My dad died yesterday afternoon. I found him slumped over on his side, laying in bed. When I found him I tried to perform CPR (I’m a nursing student……I SHOULD know this). But instead I panicked and I know I didnt perform the procedure correctly. I know these moments were crucial and I know I failed him. But I digress…

He had been taking, to my knowledge, methadone/oxycontin/xanax/prozac…as far as I know. He suffered from COPD and emphysema (according to the coroner, “bolus emphysema” which I am not familiar with).. the coroner also told me that he had cor pulmonale (right sided heart failure?). My mother was not aware of this..neither was his doctor…nobody was. I suspected it because of various signs and symptoms I had learned about in nursing school. My mother told me that the doctor had just “checked his heart” and that she said his circulation etc was great…..but I just dont understand, if a person has advanced COPD it seems as if any issue with the lungs would probably be an issue with the heart as well?? At least I feel this way.    Read more...

Methadone Overdose: Preventing Overdoses when Using Methadone to Treat Chronic Pain

A report from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices lists several reasons for the serious and sometime fatal overdoses that have occurred when methadone is used to treat moderate to severe chronic pain. ISMP points out that methadone differs from other opioids in a number of ways. For example, methadone remains in the body long after its analgesic effect has worn off. Also, a patient may not experience the full analgesic effect of methadone until 3-5 days of use, so it must be titrated more slowly than other opioids. And a high degree of tolerance to other opioids does not eliminate the possibility of methadone overdose. ISMP cites two fatalities and a near fatality from prescribing too large a methadone dose for patients who had previously taken high daily doses of Oxycontin or Vicodin. Also, if a patient on methadone stops taking the drug for three consecutive days, the patient may lose tolerance for methadone and be at risk for an overdose if the usual dose is resumed. Errors have also been reported because of confusion between methadone and other drugs with “look alike” names. In one report, a 17-year old patient with a traumatic brain injury received 25 mg of methadone BID instead of methylphenidate and suffered respiratory arrest. ISMP also points out that errors can occur because of confusion between mL and mg doses. In one case, a patient had been taking 13 mg/day of methadone, which was prepared in the community pharmacy using a 1 mg/mL methadone …
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Methadone Overdose: PCP for Primates: Your Tax Dollars at Work – NewsBusters (blog)

PCP for Primates: Your Tax Dollars at Work NewsBusters (blog) “The drugs that will be studied,” the NIH said, “are cocaine, ethanol, heroin, methadone and phencyclidine (PCP).” “The use of nondrug reinforcers as a behavioral treatment will also be compared in male and female monkeys and during 3 phases of the … and more »

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Methadone Overdose: Chronicle Book Review: The Power of the Poppy – Drug War Chronicle

Chronicle Book Review: The Power of the Poppy Drug War Chronicle He traces the isolation of morphine, codeine, heroin, thebaine (from which is derived hydromorphone [Dilaudid], oxymorphone [Opana], hydrocodone [Vicodin], and oxycodone [Oxycontin]), kompot (East European homebrew heroin), methadone, and fentanyl. …

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