Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

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

My Neighbor, The Methadone Clinic: Part III – Brooklyn Reader


Brooklyn Reader

My Neighbor, The Methadone Clinic: Part III
Brooklyn Reader
Many people see drug users as underachievers: burnouts of society who turned to substances in order to occupy their time. While this may be true for a percentage of addicts, none of the patients I met with at the START Drug Rehab Treatment Center in

Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

It takes more than methadone to treat addiction – Boston Globe

Boston’s Only Public Methadone Clinic May Shut – Boston Globe

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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Torrington methadone clinic eyes June opening – Torrington Register Citizen

Torrington methadone clinic eyes June opening
Torrington Register Citizen
The building that will house a methadone clinic operated by the Hartford Dispensary under construction on Thursday, April 10, 2014. in Torrington. The president and CEO of the company said the clinic will be open for use in June. Esteban L. Hernandez …

Methadone Clinics – Google News

Sheriff Responds to Methadone Clinic Concerns – WHAG

Freeholders Debate Possible Meth Detox Clinic in West Ward – the Trentonian

Freeholders debate possible meth detox clinic in West Ward – The Trentonian

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 …

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Ethan’s story, Part 3: ‘Addiction never stops and I will live with this for … – MassLive.com

Ethan's story, Part 3: 'Addiction never stops and I will live with this for
MassLive.com
It took four years of being hooked on pain pills and a month of cycling through brutal withdrawal symptoms from a consuming heroin addiction, but Ethan was finally ready to get clean. What would follow throughout his early 20s was a nearly four-year

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Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

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

It takes more than methadone to treat addiction – Boston Globe

It takes more than methadone to treat addiction
Boston Globe
I write as the former director of the methadone clinic originally operated by the Tufts-New England Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry and later by Bay Cove Human Services (“Drug clinic may shut,” Page A1, April 7). Brian MacQuarrie's excellent …

Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

My Neighbor, The Methadone Clinic: Part III – Brooklyn Reader

Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

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

Drug Methadone – Google News

Crimea: no more McDonald’s or methadone after annexation – The Guardian


The Guardian

Crimea: no more McDonald's or methadone after annexation
The Guardian
In another small but symbolically significant change under Russian control – though again with major implications for those directly affected – hundreds of Crimean heroin addicts issued with methadone have been told the replacement drug will no longer
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Ethan’s Story, Part 3: ‘Addiction Never Stops and I Will Live With This for … – MassLive.com

Ethan’s story, Part 3: ‘Addiction never stops and I will live with this for … – MassLive.com

Ethan's story, Part 3: 'Addiction never stops and I will live with this for
MassLive.com
He moved to New Jersey after detox, where he lived with his uncle, a recovering alcoholic, and his cousin, a recovering addict. It was an environment where everyone was going through different stages of the same difficult … In the initial triage

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Alcoholism Methadone – Google News

Eye on the Island – Three Villages Times

Eye on the Island
Three Villages Times
In fact, says Ragni, rather than pay for a stay in a detox facility, insurance companies prefer addicts to replace heroin with a pharmaceutical maintenance drug, like Methadone was in decades past. “Addiction should be treated the same as other

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