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 …

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Methadone Clinics – Google News

Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe

Deadly Addiction: Heroin Use, a Tragic Wrong Turn for Prescription Drug … – TheDay.com

Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug … – TheDay.com

Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug
TheDay.com
Suboxone clinics, which provide an alternative to methadone for opioid withdrawal, treat an increasing number of patients in the privacy of a clinician's office. Many of those seeking treatment at suboxone clinics are hooked on painkillers. Local detox

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Methadone Detox – Google News

Recovery advocate: ‘We don’t have a cure for addiction’ – Worcester Telegram

Recovery advocate: 'We don't have a cure for addiction'
Worcester Telegram
"You get a case manager that helps you navigate welfare, Social Security or housing applications or job applications, or admitting into detox or a halfway house — they're called recovery homes now." Ms. Parkinson loves to talk about the recovery

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Methadone Detox – Google News

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Day 8 detox from methadone… — Yeah this video is finally working! Day 8 off methadone and I am feeling much better.


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Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics – Boston Globe

Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe


Boston Globe

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

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Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

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

Waiting lists for addiction treatment grow, as region sees increase in heroin use – Press & Sun-Bulletin

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


Columbus Dispatch

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

Drug Methadone – Google News

Ireland has 9615 methadone users but care plans needed to get them drug-free – thejournal.ie


thejournal.ie

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


American News Report

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

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Alcoholism Methadone – Google News

Brockton Mayor Seeks Harsher Penalties For Drug Dealers – WBUR

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

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Alcoholism Methadone – Google News

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