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Drug Abuse Methadone: Four arrested on drug counts outside Albany methadone clinic
ALBANY — Four people were arrested for the recent sale of drugs outside a methadone treatment clinic, including three of its clients, Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple said Monday.
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Number of US newborns with drug withdrawal rises as more mothers abuse painkillers, heroin
Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her mouth.
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Marijuana Tops Cocaine As Most Commonly Used Drug Among Arrestees In 10 U.S. Cities
Marijuana is the most commonly used drug among men arrested in 10 cities in the United States, while cocaine use among arrestees is on the decline, a federal report revealed Wednesday.
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Prescription pad fraud plays role in abuse surge
(05-12) 09:01 PDT Los Angeles, CA (AP) — The small pads that doctors use to scribble out prescriptions, a seemingly innocent part of the medical profession, have played a role in the surge of prescription drug abuse….
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Tori Stafford's hometown struggles with drug reputation
The picturesque Ontario town that Victoria (Tori) Stafford called home is still coming to terms with being labelled as a problem area for prescription drug abuse more than three years after the eight-year-old girl disappeared outside her elementary school and was murdered.
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Prescription pads big in abuse surge
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The small pads that doctors use to scribble out prescriptions, a seemingly innocent part of the medical profession, have played a role in the surge of prescription drug abuse.
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Lodi police target prescription drug abuse
The Lodi Police Department will be hosting a prescription drug disposal event today, Saturday, April 28, 2012, in the police community room.
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Number of US newborns with drug withdrawal rises as more mothers abuse painkillers, heroin
Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her mouth.
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Vt. lawmakers debate drug data access by police
Gov. Peter Shumlin in his State of the State address in January cited an "epidemic" of prescription drug abuse in Vermont as justification for allowing police to get access without search warrants to a Health Department database that tracks the medicines Vermont doctors are prescribing for their patients.
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Drug Abuse Methadone: US prescription drug abuse abetted by family, friends -study – Reuters
The DEA estimates that 7 million Americans abuse pharmaceuticals … from oxycodone, methadone, hydrocodone, benzodiazepines and morphine, federal officials say. Prescription drug abusers include an estimated one in seven teenagers.
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Officials say monitoring key to curbing prescription drug abuse – Arkansas News Bureau
Bryant told a crowd of more than 500 that methamphetamine use and trafficking remains the No. 1 problem in the state, while abuse of prescription drugs, especially the painkiller hydrocodone, ranks second. Oxycodone, methadone and cough syrup …
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Number of US newborns with drug withdrawal rises as more mothers abuse painkillers, heroin – Washington Post
CHICAGO — Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her mouth. The infant is going through drug withdrawal and is being treated with the same narcotic prescribed for …
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Methadone is a prescription medication that is used to treat severe pain. It also helps those addicted to heroin to cease their use of the drug without experiencing horrendous withdrawal symptoms. Since heroin causes an excess of dopamine to be released into the brain, addicts feel a constant need for the drug to maintain this high. Methadone satisfies this need for an opiate without the euphoria associated with heroin. While users of methadone are ultimately transferring their dependence from one drug to another, they become more stable and no longer experience urgent impulses to take heroin. Once the desire to take heroin is completely diminished, patients are then weaned off of the methadone, although this process can sometimes take several years to complete.    Read more...

Drug Methadone: Abuse of Opiates Soars in Pregnant Women – New York Times
Many infants are hospitalized for several weeks while doctors treat them with methadone or morphine to gradually wean them from their dependence on the drugs that their mothers used. “The incidence has gone crazy and I think it has the …
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Drug Methadone: Number of US newborns with drug withdrawal rises as more mothers abuse painkillers, heroin – Washington Post
CHICAGO — Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her mouth. The infant is going through drug withdrawal and is being treated with the same narcotic prescribed for …
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Drug Methadone: Number of US newborns with drug withdrawal triples – US News and World Report
CHICAGO (AP) — Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her mouth. The infant is going through drug withdrawal and is being treated with the same narcotic …
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Drug Methadone: Infants Born Addicted to Opiates Tripled in Past Decade – Bloomberg
Pregnant mothers addicted to the prescription painkillers, if they enter treatment, usually continue to receive opiates, such as methadone, since stopping the drugs could harm the unborn child and result in a miscarriage, said Marie Hayes …
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Drug Methadone: Number of painkiller-addicted newborns soars – USA Today
Treating drug-addicted newborns, most of whom are covered by the … Doctors try to relieve the pain of surviving babies by treating them with methadone, a narcotic painkiller commonly used to treat heroin addicts. Doctors reduce the dose …
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