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Abusing Methadone in the News

Abusing Methadone: As heroin death toll rises, antidote is available — but hard to find
It's legal, but it's not widely available, said Caleb Banta-Green, a research scientist at the University of Washington's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute. "It's an issue of needing enough demand. People don't know to ask for it," he said.
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Abusing Methadone: Car bomb explodes outside newspaper offices in northern Mexico
Look at prescription meds that are used and abused by the average person–Oxycodone, Methadone, Percocet. These are legal but the demand for them and the abuse of them is still an epidemic. It is very naive to think, one day, that drug use and demand …
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Abusing Methadone in the News

Abusing Methadone: Slidell pain clinic owner convicted of scam
By Times-Picayune Staff The owner of a Slidell pain clinic was found guilty this week of money laundering and conspiring to distribute oxycodone and methadone for a scam that involved recruiting people from eastern Kentucky to visit his clinics in …
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Abusing Methadone: Drug abuse, texting bills finalized in W.Va.
Earl Ray Tomblin to tackle various forms of substance abuse. A special House-Senate committee, meanwhile, reached a compromise over Tomblin's bid to deter texting and hand-held cellphone use while driving. The final bill will phase in the ban on using …
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Abusing Methadone: Drug despair
By Bronwen O'Shea Lorraine never thought drug abuse would affect her family. Then her smart, funny daughter became addicted to heroin and now she spends each day fearing a knock on the door. "She was a beautiful kid growing up. She was very academic, …
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Abusing Methadone: County planners review accessory structures
The question of substance-abuse treatment facilities and methadone clinics was also tied into the discussion of accessory buildings. Rosenoff said about five years ago, many people who were interested in setting up a methadone clinic were advising …
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Abusing Methadone: Cuts for mental health, drug treatment have many nervous
“There are less and less places for them (those with mental issues and substance abuse problems) to get care,” he added. Faced with a budget shortfall of more than $ 1 billion, the state House has proposed cuts that would hit nursing homes, …
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Abusing Methadone: Interventional Treatment Versus Medical Management: Dilemmas in Pain Management
I try not to prescribe medications that are frequently abused, such as oxycodone and methadone. Instead, I prefer to prescribe medications that are harder to abuse and lack street value. Generally for control of chronic pain, the first choice is a …
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Abusing Methadone: Why Not? Here's Luxury Packaging Designed For Rehab Drugs
… a concept by recent d-school grad Morey Talmor for stashing rehab substances in slick smoky bottles and syringes that wouldn't look out of place at the MAC counter (but would look terribly out of place at your local methadone clinic).
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Abusing Methadone: Patrol seizes K in marijuana
Michael Carty, 44, the driver, and passenger, Erwin Koston Jr., 44, both of Denver, each were charged with drug abuse and trafficking in drugs, both third-degree felonies. The passenger also was charged with possession of methadone, a fifth-degree …
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Abusing Methadone: Doctors: Don't limit care for addicts
Without the drug, Cox said, he and other recovering addicts would likely have to go to methadone clinics or buy drugs on the street again. "It's going to be a real big temptation," he said. "I'll need something for a while."
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Abusing Methadone: Amid 'pill mill' crackdown, budget cuts hit programs for drug-addicted women …
She says the state needs to also provide programs that offer help such as methadone treatment to women who are already addicted to pain killers and other prescription drugs. She says allowing these women to go into withdrawal during pregnancy leads to …
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Abusing Methadone: Heroin takes heavy toll on users
Elmore had been on a methadone program, said his sister, Dawn Elmore-McCrary. A year before his death, he lost his job as a social worker. Then he lost his job as a pizza delivery driver. He no longer could afford the drives to St. Louis, …
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Abusing Methadone: R-4 Board reviews drug testing policy revisions
Other drugs covered by the 12-panel screening include: phencyclidine or PCP; benzodiazepines, such as Valium or Xanax; barbiturates; oxycodone, such as Percodan, Percocet and Oxycontin; methadone; propoxyphene, a synthetic opiate; …
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