Boston’s Only Public Methadone Clinic May Shut – Boston Globe

Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe

Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe
Boston health officials are poised to close the city's only public methadone clinic at a time when heroin overdoses, which methadone is used to combat, are rising dramatically across the state. Shutting the clinic, which has offered methadone to opiate

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Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment – Salon


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Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
Salon
Of the 23.1 million Americans who needed treatment for drugs or alcohol in 2012, only 2.5 million people received aid at a specialty facility, according to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Heroin addicts are a

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Caught dealing painkillers at Seattle Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, Vietnam … – seattlepi.com

Caught dealing painkillers at Seattle Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, Vietnam
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Among the drugs Shepard sold were narcotics – oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine and methadone – that many of the treatment clients were presumably hoping to break away from. Law enforcement agents searched the center in March 2013, seizing drugs …

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Vet who sold painkillers at addicts’ meetings looks for mercy – KOMO News


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Vet who sold painkillers at addicts' meetings looks for mercy
KOMO News
Shepard owned the non-profit center, which hosted Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings. Undercover officers posed as addicts in treatment to gain Shepard's trust. While Shepard refused to sell the drugs … Among the drugs Shepard sold

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