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Lyrica (Pregabalin) – Know Your Drug

Lyrica (pregabalin) – Know Your Drug — In this episode of Know Your Drug, Brothers Phil Debiasio and Dai-Nghia Khuong discuss the prescription drug Lyrica (pregabaln). Lyrica is commonly prescribe…


Quiz: Are You Smarter Than a Middle-School Science Whiz?

Quiz: Are you smarter than a middle-school science whiz?
Mike Siegel has been a news photographer at the Seattle Times since 1987. His photography was used in a series titled "Methadone and the Politics of Pain," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for investigative reporting. Janet Horne Henderson is The …
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Round-up: Inslee proposes ending tax breaks to fund K-12, reading gap widens
Program guides Eastern Washington students into higher ed (The Spokesman-Review): The College Success Foundation, a program that's been in place in several Seattle-area schools for more than a decade, is spreading to districts east of the mountains …
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Methadone Clinics Help Ukraine Succeed Where Russia Fails on HIV

Methadone Clinics Help Ukraine Succeed Where Russia Fails on HIV
Edward Ovcharuk, who used drugs for 17 years, has been on methadone for two months. The treatment has already changed his life, he said. “I used to steal money from my family,” Ovcharuk, 33, said outside the clinic in Kiev. “I don't need to steal anymore.
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Senator Spends His Holidays With the Homeless

Senator Spends His Holidays With The Homeless — Join #FOWLERNATION!! http://bit.ly/SubscribeFowlerNation Just another guy who I should avoid eye contact with and hope he doesn’t ask me for spare change, ma…


BMA gives second approval to pain clinic, animal ordinances
Then Planner Charles Alley, the representative of the state Planning Office assigned to Rogersville, said the proposed ordinance amendment would limit a “methadone treatment clinic or facility” or “substance abuse treatment facility” to the town's M-1 …
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Stillwater's Log Jam festival fraught with juvenile peril
The AP story says: “Thirty mushers and 420 dogs will hit the trail Sunday in a rebooted John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon with new, fan-friendly features that organizers hope will help the Minnesota tradition recapture some of its former glory …
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In Quiet Vermont, Rising Problem of Heroin, Pill Abuse Stirs a Battle Cry

In quiet Vermont, rising problem of heroin, pill abuse stirs a battle cry
Peter Shumlin delivers the State of the State Address at the Statehouse in Montpelier, Vt. Shumlin Shumlin highlighted opiate abuse in the state by devoting nearly his entire State of the State speech to it. (AP Photo/Andy Duback). MONTPELIER, Vt …
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Clarksville woman accused of trying to run over boyfriend and attacking him
All are items used to make methamphetamine, the officer wrote. In addition, officers found 16 Adderall pills, 32 morphine sulfate pills, 13 methadone pills, 21 oxymorphone pills and 25 oxycodone pills, the warrant said. A white powder which tested …
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Risenburg accepts plea bargain
Methadone is a drug used to wean people off of heroin, but Stierwalt said a doctor had prescribed it to Jason Risenburg for a work-related injury. “He furnished them to her at some point up to her death,” Stierwalt said of the methadone pills. “She …
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Prison Drug Fears – Irish Independent

Prison drug fears – Irish Independent

Prison drug fears
Irish Independent
Castlerea prison is the only medium security prison in the country that was considered heroin free because it did not have a methadone clinic. Prisoners with heroin addictions needing treatment were housed at other facilities. Now a GP who worked with 

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