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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Brockton Mayor Seeks Harsher Penalties for Drug Dealers – WBUR
Brockton Mayor Seeks Harsher Penalties For Drug Dealers – WBUR
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Brockton Mayor Seeks Harsher Penalties For Drug Dealers
WBUR Here in the city of Brockton, we have three hospitals, a large neighborhood health center, two methadone clinics, a detox and numerous outpatient counseling centers. And we also have a small independent alternative school, called Independence Academy, … |
Unproductive bodies [part 1]: narcotisation of dependency. – libcom.org (blog)
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Unproductive bodies [part 1]: narcotisation of dependency.
libcom.org (blog) Savage cuts are welfare are the detox is to heroin, workfare the methadone substitute prescription, complete with its own group therapy program. In these conditions the addict produced by the illicit drug market gains a strange position as both abject … |
Suboxone: A Double-Edged Sword – The Epoch Times
Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics – Boston Globe
Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe
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Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Boston Globe Methadone is often stigmatized, he acknowledged, but for some addicts — when it's used in combination with counseling and other treatments — the substitute drug makes a dramatic difference in their lives. “Methadone will allow you to go from a … |
Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News
Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM
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Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM Would seem to make more sense to substitute medical marijuana for methadone to treat addicts. Methadone can be just as lethal as the drug for which it's being substituted. I saw far more economic and personal damage from alcohol than from pot during my … |
Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News
Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe
Methadone Given to Girl at Age 4 Started Her Slow Death – Columbus Dispatch
Methadone given to girl at age 4 started her slow death – Columbus Dispatch
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Methadone given to girl at age 4 started her slow death
Columbus Dispatch Four days before her fifth birthday, on Oct. 7, 2010, Amya was sick and having trouble sleeping in her South Side home. In an attempt to make her feel better, a family friend gave her a sip of methadone. The synthetic drug, normally prescribed to … |
Ireland has 9615 methadone users but care plans needed to get them drug-free – thejournal.ie
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Ireland has 9615 methadone users but care plans needed to get them drug-free
thejournal.ie Tony Geoghegan, CEO of Merchants Quay told TheJournal.ie, that while it is better to have people on a legal and controlled drug like methadone than heroin, but said it would be better if people weren't left languishing on methadone, with no care-plans … |
Health Officials Call for Better Access to Addiction Treatment – American News Report
Health Officials Call for Better Access to Addiction Treatment – American News Report
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Health Officials Call for Better Access to Addiction Treatment
American News Report “When prescribed and monitored properly, medications such as methadone, buprenorphine, or naltrexone are safe and cost-effective components of opioid addiction treatment,” said lead author Nora Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug … |
Alcoholism Methadone – Google News
Brockton Mayor Seeks Harsher Penalties For Drug Dealers – WBUR
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Brockton Mayor Seeks Harsher Penalties For Drug Dealers
WBUR Here in the city of Brockton, we have three hospitals, a large neighborhood health center, two methadone clinics, a detox and numerous outpatient counseling centers. And we also have a small independent alternative school, called Independence Academy … |
Alcoholism Methadone – Google News
UP CLOSE | A Haven for the homeless? – Yale Daily News (blog)
Boston to Shutter Drug Treatment Facility – Boston Globe
Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe
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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
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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