Posts Tagged ‘Class A drug’

Tragic Two-Year-Old ‘Who Died After Sipping Mother’s Methadone From Beaker Had … – Daily Mail

Drug Methadone: Tragic two-year-old ‘who died after sipping mother’s methadone from beaker had … – Daily Mail


Daily Mail

Tragic two-year-old 'who died after sipping mother's methadone from beaker had
Daily Mail
She claims that Binfield, who was watching television in the other room on the morning of the incident, let Riley go back into the bedroom unsupervised, knowing that methadone was within his reach and knowing that Dent was sleeping off drugs she had

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Drug Methadone: Plan to End Methadone Use at Albuquerque Jail Prompts Alarm – New York Times


New York Times

Plan to End Methadone Use at Albuquerque Jail Prompts Alarm
New York Times
For the last six years, the Metropolitan Detention Center, New Mexico's largest jail, has been administering methadone to inmates with drug addictions, one of a small number of jails and prisons around the country that do so. At this vast complex

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Drug Methadone: Plan to End Methadone Use at Albuquerque Jail Prompts Alarm – New York Times

Drug Methadone: Plan to End Methadone Use at Albuquerque Jail Prompts Alarm – New York Times


New York Times

Plan to End Methadone Use at Albuquerque Jail Prompts Alarm
New York Times
For the last six years, the Metropolitan Detention Center, New Mexico's largest jail, has been administering methadone to inmates with drug addictions, one of a small number of jails and prisons around the country that do so. At this vast complex

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Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: Toddler ‘died after drinking methadone from child’s beaker left in bedroom … – Daily Mail


Daily Mail

Toddler 'died after drinking methadone from child's beaker left in bedroom
Daily Mail
Dent and Binfield are now on trial, charged with their son's manslaughter and cruelty to a person under 16 as it is alleged they failed to keep methadone and other drugs out of the reach of the child. Tragic: Riley Pettipierre, two, of Belper
Tests showed Riley, 2, was exposed to Class A drugsDerby Telegraph
Derbyshire toddler 'drank fatal beaker of methadone'BBC News
Toddler death: couple on trialBelper News
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Methadone Drug Case Is Sent to Plymouth Crown Court – This Is Plymouth

Drug Methadone: Methadone drug case is sent to Plymouth Crown Court – This is Plymouth

Methadone drug case is sent to Plymouth Crown Court
This is Plymouth
A WOMAN accused of dealing the heroin substitute methadone has had her case sent to Crown Court. Emma Hingston, aged 31, appeared at Plymouth Magistrates' Court charged with possessing 18 bottles of the Class A drug with intent to supply on April 11

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Drug Methadone: Self medicating recovering drug addict, Ryan Bailey, guilty of possession of … – This is North Devon

Self medicating recovering drug addict, Ryan Bailey, guilty of possession of
This is North Devon
Tim Hook, for the defence, said last year Bailey had been driven to drive off without paying for petrol because of his drug addiction. He was given a drug rehabilitation order for that crime which included a prescription for methadone. But that script

Pols Fear Drug Clinic ‘menace’ – Boston Herald

Drug Methadone: Pols fear drug clinic ‘menace’ – Boston Herald

Pols fear drug clinic 'menace'
Boston Herald
By Dave Wedge A proposed methadone clinic that would be the third in an industrial city block is closer to reality, despite vigilant opposition from lawmakers who fear it will “oversaturate” the neighborhood with dopesick junkies.

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Drug Methadone: Police Arrest 10 Alleged Drug Dealers, 2 Users In Union Square’s ‘Methadone Alley’ – Gothamist


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Police Arrest 10 Alleged Drug Dealers, 2 Users In Union Square's 'Methadone Alley'
Gothamist
The problem with cracking down on drug addicts is that once you stop, they just come back. Take, for example, the so-called "Methadone Alley" on the east side of Union Square. Last year, after concerns arose the area was going back to the bad old days,
Union Square's 'Methadone Alley' Is Back, Complete With Police CrackdownNew York Magazine

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Why Heroin Treatment in Utah Is Not So Simple and What You Can Do About It

For a long time, heroin has ruled the roost as the most addictive kind of drug in the world. Heroin treatment in Utah faces several challenges because of the sheer nature of this drug. The biggest problem with heroin is that it immunizes the body into thinking that it cannot do without a constant supply of the substance. When a person consumes heroin for the first time, the brain releases a chemical that causes the feeling of pleasure. This is what the person identifies as the high created by heroin and that is why the person gets tempted to use the substance over and over again.


But as time passes, the person finds that his or her dependency on the substance is increasing and the body is slowly getting immunized to the effects of the heroin. Despite consuming heroin in the same manner as before, it is not producing that emphatic euphoria. That is when the person begins increasing the dosage of heroin. This is then continues as a cycle and the person finds it very difficult to come out of the heroin dependency at all.