Drug Abuse Methadone: Addict Turned Expert Says Mainstream View of Addiction Needs Rethink – TheTyee.ca (Blog)

Drug Abuse Methadone: Addict turned expert says mainstream view of addiction needs rethink – TheTyee.ca (blog)

Addict turned expert says mainstream view of addiction needs rethink
TheTyee.ca (blog)
By Ben Christopher January 19, 2012 12:05 pm That's the key message of a new book by Dr. Peter Ferentzy, a Toronto-based addiction specialist with over twenty years of experience studying social attitudes surrounding drug use.

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Drug Abuse Methadone: Does Illicit Drug Use Harm Cognition in Midlife? – Medscape

Does Illicit Drug Use Harm Cognition in Midlife?
Medscape
The illicit drug categories were cannabis, ecstasy, cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, hallucinogenic mushrooms, LSD, temazepam, methadone, amyl nitrates (poppers), ketamine, and "other drugs." When the participants were 50 years old,

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Drug Abuse Methadone: Suicide attempt precedes alleged murderer’s death – WLFI.com

Suicide attempt precedes alleged murderer's death
WLFI.com
Originally, Williams had been prescribed methadone to help him with his long history of drug use. According to Deputy Coroner John Boyer, Williams wrote a suicide note to a friend while incarcerated in Michigan City. Five days after his suicide attempt

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Drug Abuse Methadone: Why Not? Here’s Luxury Packaging Designed For Rehab Drugs – Co.Design


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Why Not? Here's Luxury Packaging Designed For Rehab Drugs
Co.Design
He's mocking both the beauty industry, which will throw just about anything into a sexy bottle and call it a miracle cure, and the romanticization of drug abuse, which always manages to gloss over that niggling “abuse” part.

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Drug Abuse Methadone: Prescription Drug Abuse – Part 3 Sobering facts of a problem out of control – Tampa Bay Newspapers


Tampa Bay Newspapers

Prescription Drug Abuse – Part 3 Sobering facts of a problem out of control
Tampa Bay Newspapers
In 2010, the Florida Medical Examiner found that 2710 deaths in the state were caused by prescription drugs, which is an increase of 8.9 percent from 2009. – Pinellas County leads the state in deaths from oxycodone, alprazolam (Xanax), methadone,

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