Abusing Methadone in the News

Abusing Methadone: As heroin death toll rises, antidote is available — but hard to find
It's legal, but it's not widely available, said Caleb Banta-Green, a research scientist at the University of Washington's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute. "It's an issue of needing enough demand. People don't know to ask for it," he said.
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Abusing Methadone: Car bomb explodes outside newspaper offices in northern Mexico
Look at prescription meds that are used and abused by the average person–Oxycodone, Methadone, Percocet. These are legal but the demand for them and the abuse of them is still an epidemic. It is very naive to think, one day, that drug use and demand …
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Abusing Methadone: Woman charged with trafficking
Later that day, Raven Genaille was arrested when she showed up at the bus depot to pick up a package, which contained methadone. The drug is a highly abused and potentially fatal substance that is only available by a doctor's prescription.
Read more on Regina Leader-Post

Abusing Methadone: Washington County jail panel bemoans loss of funding for mental health services
Officials told the board of visitors that nearly every jail inmate suffers from mental health or substance abuse issues and until those issues are dealt with, the jail will have a revolving door. “The people we are getting have more severe mental …
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