LEGISLATIVE ROUNDUP: Opioid Antidote Legislation Advances
LEGISLATIVE ROUNDUP: Opioid antidote legislation advances
In this Tuesday Feb. 27, 2012 photo, a tube of Naloxone Hydrochloride, also known as Narcan, is shown for scale next to a lipstick container in Quincy, Mass., home. Narcan is a nasal spray used as an antidote for opiate drug overdoses. The drug …
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Marlborough committee to discuss heroin OD antidote
City Councilor at Large Mark Oram made a proposal at Monday night's City Council to equip first responders with Narcan, a drug that counters the effects of an opiate overdose. Oram said that he was spurred to make the suggestion following recent …
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Heroin overdose seminar in Swedesboro addresses naloxone use
The room itself seems appropriately sterile, with bare fluorescent lights resembling those you would see in a hospital while visiting a patient recovering from an opiate overdose. That possible overdose is the reason why a group of 18 people are …
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Puricorp's Declinol Alcohol Over-Use Program Grows Over 300% in 2014
Puricorp's Declinol Alcohol Over-Use Program Grows over 300% in 2014
Puricorp announced today continued record growth in its line of products serving Practitioners, Clinics, and individuals seeking help for over-use of alcohol, opiate-based pain meds, over-eating, and excessive use of cigarettes and tobacco products. (PRWeb March 17, 2014) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11667185.htm
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My Dr Gave Me Methadone but Wont Prescribe Fentanyl Limb Pain?
Question by rockondon_djs: my dr gave me methadone but wont prescribe fentanyl limb pain?
so is fentanyl work that good?ive lost a leg in a accident my doc gave my mom fentanyl for a little hole in her leg but wont
prescribe it for a missing leg pain.is it to addictive?im on methadone but im in pain now and dont feel much relief?
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Answer by Bite Me.
Methadone is mainly used for treatment of heroin addiction. Doctors wont prescribe pain killers to people with addictive personalities because good pain killers are schedule II, considered a high potential for addiction.
So if your on methedone, most people will assume it is for heroin, and wont risk a chance of a new addiction.
Also some pain killers are derived from opiates, heroin is derived from opium. Very similar.
Officials: Time for a Bennington Drug Treatment Center or Methadone Clinic – Brattleboro Reformer
Officials: Time for a Bennington drug treatment center or methadone clinic – Brattleboro Reformer
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Officials: Time for a Bennington drug treatment center or methadone clinic
Brattleboro Reformer The event was planned by Rutland Herald Reporter Patrick McArdle as a way of letting local leaders from the town, police, schools and health care system respond to an article in the New York Times featuring heroin addiction in town. The article … |
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Rise in heroin use leads to more patients at treatment centers
StarNewsOnline.com Some patients use methadone as a maintenance strategy, remaining on the drug for years, but functioning in society. Others taper their methadone use and eventually leave the drug behind. But addiction is never cured, House said. "Because of the stigma … |
Wife and Mother: ‘You’D Never Suspect My Junkie Past’ – KCUR
Wife And Mother: ‘You’d Never Suspect My Junkie Past’ – KCUR
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Wife And Mother: 'You'd Never Suspect My Junkie Past'
KCUR Side effects led to new drugs, and more side effects. My husband — once friend and partner — was now my jailer, controlling access to my pills he kept locked in a safe. A single Xanax turned into five if I could sneak them. And the methadone went … |
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Rise in Heroin Use Leads to More Patients at Treatment Centers
Rise in heroin use leads to more patients at treatment centers
The numbers illustrate the growth of heroin and opiate abuse in the region.
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Officials: Time for a Bennington drug treatment center or methadone clinic
BENNINGTON — The time may be ripe for a drug treatment center to come to Bennington, according to a state senator and town leaders.
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