New State Regulations Make Heroin Treatment Challenging – the Patriot Ledger

New state regulations make heroin treatment challenging – The Patriot Ledger

New state regulations make heroin treatment challenging
The Patriot Ledger
That appealed to many addicts from suburban or professional backgrounds – people who didn't want the stigma of attending methadone clinics, which require daily oral treatment. "I am without a doubt certain that if I didn't have Suboxone, I would be

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The heroin addiction scourge – The Daily News of Newburyport

The heroin addiction scourge
The Daily News of Newburyport
Methadone, a powerfully addictive synthetic opiate, was prescribed for heroin addicts. It still is. But methadone “treatment” is a little like “curing” the alcoholic who drinks a 12-pack of beer every day by giving him a quart of rum to drink every

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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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Wide Variability in State Access to SUD Meds – Medscape

Wide Variability in State Access to SUD Meds
Medscape
"In one state, alcohol dependence might be very high, but the state does not offer the medication for treatment," lead author Amanda J. Abraham, PhD, University of Georgia, in Atlanta, told Medscape Medical News. … Health and Science University, in

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