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 Heroin and prescription drug addiction is “a giant problem in Boston; it's a giant problem across the country,'' said General Barry R. McCaffrey, who served as drug czar in the Clinton administration and has been on the CRC Health board since before … |
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 Methadone entered the public consciousness in the 1950s when American doctors began using it to treat heroin addiction. Today, about 500,000 people are participating in methadone treatment programs nationwide, including several hundred locally. |
Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News
Kentuckiana faces rising problem of drug abuse and addiction – IU Southeast Horizon
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 … |
Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM
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Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM (WZZM) – A drug introduced 75 years ago to wean addicts off heroin is now the leading cause of prescription overdose deaths in Kent County. The drug is methadone. It is widely prescribed as an inexpensive pain killer, but has become a killer in its own … |
Crimea Side-Effect: Addicts Deprived of Methadone – ABC News
Wide Variability in State Access to SUD Meds – Medscape
Wide Variability in State Access to SUD Meds – Medscape
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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 … |
Alcoholism Methadone – Google News
More charges for man accused in burglary, arson – Frederick News Post (subscription)
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More charges for man accused in burglary, arson
Frederick News Post (subscription) n Dashaun Lee Smith, 34, of Frederick, was indicted on charges of possessing an alcoholic beverage in a public park, possession of cocaine and paraphernalia, and intent to distribute. n Dean Morgan Stewart, 46, of Frederick, faces charges of … |
Alcoholism Methadone – Google News
The Danny factor: help or hindrance? – The Telegram
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 The clinic parking lot is jammed at 10:30 on a Monday morning. Inside a bustling waiting room, patients talk to staff members and wait their turn at the medicine window. A young blond woman fights off sleep, slumping against a suitcase. Everyone is … |
Methadone Clinics – Google News
Judge: Warren’s ordinance to limit methadone clinics violates federal law – Bangor Daily News
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Judge: Warren's ordinance to limit methadone clinics violates federal law
Bangor Daily News PORTLAND, Maine — A federal judge has issued a report that concludes an ordinance adopted by Warren to regulate methadone clinics was discriminatory and violates the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. The company that waged a multiyear … |
Methadone Clinics – Google News
Torrington methadone clinic eyes June opening – Torrington Register Citizen
The Dilemma of Prescription Opioids: Shifting Attitudes Towards the Pain Patient
The dilemma of prescription opioids: Shifting attitudes towards the pain patient
Moralism has shaped health provider attitudes toward pain patients, leading to under-use – especially along racial and class-stratified lines – of substitution opioid therapies such as methadone maintenance. Moral beliefs and values have influenced …
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Bob the Street Cat books sell 1m copies in UK
The pair became well-known in London, going on to attract the attention of a literary agent, who sold Bowen's story of how, with Bob's help, he would get over his addictions to heroin and methadone, to Hodder & Stoughton. The publisher said today that …
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Stop drug use
Again, the result of the drug laws are more dangerous than the drugs would otherwise be. Other countries have found success in decriminalizing drugs and treating addiction as an illness. Time for a new approach … Stronger, truly addictive drugs are …
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Kentuckiana Faces Rising Problem of Drug Abuse and Addiction – IU Southeast Horizon
Kentuckiana faces rising problem of drug abuse and addiction – IU Southeast Horizon
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Kentuckiana faces rising problem of drug abuse and addiction
IU Southeast Horizon The Healing Place is one of the few places in Louisville to offer more than just a 30-day detox program. Because only 20 percent of its funding comes from the public sector and the rest from various partnerships and private donations, it is able to … |
Freeholders debate possible meth detox clinic in West Ward – The Trentonian
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Freeholders debate possible meth detox clinic in West Ward
The Trentonian TRENTON — The question of whether the former Capital Health Center building will be the new home of a rumored methadone detox clinic was the topic of debate during Tuesday night's Freeholder Meeting. Global Life Enterprises, GLE, who purchased the … |