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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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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

Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe

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

and more »

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

Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe

Methadone Safety: New Clinical Practice Guideline From American Pain Society

Methadone safety: New clinical practice guideline from American Pain Society
Improved physician education and patient counseling about methadone safety and ECG monitoring to identify patients at high risk for cardiac problems will lead to safer use of the medication, according to the American Pain Society's Clinical Practice Guideline on Methadone Safety, published this week in The Journal of Pain.
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HHS calls health care providers to expand use of medications to treat opioid addiction, reduce overdose deaths
A national response to the epidemic of prescription opioid overdose deaths was outlined yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine by leaders of agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Expand Use of Medications to Combat Opioid Overdose Epidemic

Expand Use of Medications to Combat Opioid Overdose Epidemic
More than 16,000 people die every year in this country from prescription opioid overdoses, more than heroin and cocaine combined.
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Three arrested in crackdown on Cumbria prison drugs
THREE men have been arrested as part of a double-pronged attack on the drug supply at Cumbria’s only jail.
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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

Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

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

and more »

Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

US Officials Call for Greater Use of Medications to Treat Drug Abuse – Voice of America

US Officials Call for Greater Use of Medications to Treat Drug Abuse – Voice of America

US Officials Call for Greater Use of Medications to Treat Drug Abuse – Voice of America


Voice of America

US Officials Call for Greater Use of Medications to Treat Drug Abuse
Voice of America
Therapeutic drugs to treat prescription drug abuse include methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone. Methadone has for years been widely administered at heroin clinics in the U.S.; buprenorphine can be prescribed by qualifying doctors, and naltrexone is …

Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

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

and more »

Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News