Archive for the ‘Methadone Clinics’ Category
Hong Kong Girls Using Wider Variety of Drugs Than Boys as Addicts Get Younger
Hong Kong girls using wider variety of drugs than boys as addicts get younger
It wasn't that long ago that she underwent the same ordeal as other addicts did to wean themselves off drugs. …. With heroin users, they are addicted to methadone [used to reduce withdrawal symptoms] so these numbers can be counted at rehab centres.
Read more on South China Morning Post
A Father's Struggle Against Heroin Addiction Highlights the Cost of an Epidemic
After doctors weaned off his supply, he began buying on the streets. It was only a matter … His story is all too typical — nearly four out of five people who recently started using heroin used prescription painkillers first, according to the Center …
Read more on Fusion
More Weaning Off Methadone Information…
Boston to Shutter Drug Treatment Facility – Boston Globe
Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe
|
Boston to shutter drug treatment facility
Boston Globe More than 400 opiate addicts in Boston who receive daily doses of methadone from a public clinic on Frontage Road will be steered to a for-profit facility by summer, health officials said. In a 6-to-1 vote last week, Boston's Board of Health decided to … |
Methadone Clinics – Google News
Bain Capital Sees Opportunity In Methadone Clinics – Huffington Post
|
Bain Capital Sees Opportunity In Methadone Clinics
Huffington Post ST. JOHNSBURY, VT – FEBRUARY 06: Drugs are prepared to shoot intravenously by a user addicted to heroin on February 6, 2014 in St. Johnsbury Vermont. Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin recently devoted his entire State of the State speech to the … |
Methadone Clinics – Google News
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
Heroin Epidemic Challenges Nonprofits and Health Insurance Alike
Heroin Epidemic Challenges Nonprofits and Health Insurance Alike
According to AP, “Because withdrawal is not directly deadly, most insurance companies won't pay for inpatient heroin detoxification or rehab…They either claim that the addict does not meet the 'criteria for medical necessity'—that inpatient care …
Read more on The Nonprofit Quarterly
Doctor's license suspended after clinic raided
Methadone is commonly used for pain management or to aid in the withdrawal from heroin. One pharmacy refused to fill Christensen's narcotics prescriptions until the doctor filled out a treatment plan for that patient. All 43 treatment plans Christensen …
Read more on Daily Inter Lake
Approval of drug is long overdue
Narcon sends the victim into immediate withdrawal and reverses the effects of the drug by helping the person regain ability to breathe. … Narcon can counter overdoses of opiates including heroin, morphine, oxycodone (Oxycontin), methadone …
Read more on New Jersey Hills
Boston to Shutter Drug Treatment Facility – Boston Globe
Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe
|
Boston to shutter drug treatment facility
Boston Globe More than 400 opiate addicts in Boston who receive daily doses of methadone from a public clinic on Frontage Road will be steered to a for-profit facility by summer, health officials said. In a 6-to-1 vote last week, Boston's Board of Health decided to … |
Methadone Clinics – Google News
Bain Capital Sees Opportunity In Methadone Clinics – Huffington Post
|
Bain Capital Sees Opportunity In Methadone Clinics
Huffington Post ST. JOHNSBURY, VT – FEBRUARY 06: Drugs are prepared to shoot intravenously by a user addicted to heroin on February 6, 2014 in St. Johnsbury Vermont. Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin recently devoted his entire State of the State speech to the … |
Methadone Clinics – Google News
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
The Politics of Addiction
The politics of addiction
House Bill 378 (No): Requires anyone who gets medication-assisted treatment, such as Suboxone or methadone, to take part in behavioral counseling or other programs. In general, coupling counseling with medications that ease withdrawal pains is a …
Read more on Toledo Blade
Parents seek naloxone to help their adult kids
KY NALOXONE CLINIC 1.jpg. Dr. Jeremy Engel, a physician and public health activist, talks Wednesday with Kimberly Wright of Cold Spring, whose daughter is addicted to heroin, in the naloxone clinic set up in the Kenton County Administration Building …
Read more on Cincinnati.com
Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) — Every morning, Sergei Kislov takes the bus to the rundown outskirts of this port city for the methadone doses that keep him off heroin without suffering withdrawal. Now that Russia has taken over Crimea, the trips are about …
Read more on Omaha World-Herald
Boston to Shutter Drug Treatment Facility – Boston Globe
Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe
|
Boston to shutter drug treatment facility
Boston Globe More than 400 opiate addicts in Boston who receive daily doses of methadone from a public clinic on Frontage Road will be steered to a for-profit facility by summer, health officials said. In a 6-to-1 vote last week, Boston's Board of Health decided to … |
Methadone Clinics – Google News
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 … |
Methadone Clinics – Google News
Bain Capital Sees Opportunity In Methadone Clinics – Huffington Post