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Police Warn Drug Users After Theft of Highly Potent Methadone – Vancouver Sun

Police warn drug users after theft of highly potent methadone – Vancouver Sun

Police warn drug users after theft of highly potent methadone
Vancouver Sun
The methadone was snatched during an early-morning break-in at a Rexall Drug Store at Fraser Street and East 50th Avenue, said VPD Sergeant Randy Fincham in a news release. The thieves appeared to have smashed the glass in the front door to enter 

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Toddler Dies after Methadone Overdose, Mother Arrested – KUTV 2News


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Toddler Dies after Methadone Overdose, Mother Arrested
KUTV 2News
Joel Millard, Executive Director of the drug treatment center Project Reality in Salt Lake, said methadone is used to help recovering drug addicts get through very painful withdrawal symptoms. Most people go to the methadone clinic to get their daily dose.
Utah toddler dies after mom gives him liquid methadone she'd stored in New York Daily News
Toddler dies due to methadone overdoseUPI.com (blog)
Mother Kills Baby After Accidentally Serving MethadoneOpposing Views
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Experts Warned About Rise in Youth Drug Use in Stanislaus County – Modesto Bee

Experts warned about rise in youth drug use in Stanislaus County – Modesto Bee

Experts warned about rise in youth drug use in Stanislaus County
Modesto Bee
From the poor to the affluent, the young to the old and everyone in between, addiction knows no boundaries, said Trinidad Tarancon, program coordinator at Genesis, a Stanislaus County-operated methadone clinic. “It attacks anyone, whether you are a 

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Ways sought to halt spike in heroin use – Buffalo News

Ways sought to halt spike in heroin use
Buffalo News
The News last week interviewed a dozen individuals from law enforcement, addiction treatment centers, the medical profession and relatives of drug addicts, and asked them those questions. The only consensus was that there is no simple answer. Some said

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Heroin’s Euphoric High Makes It Hard to Quit – kvor

Danish Street Magazine Pays for Drug Addicts' Next Hit

Danish street magazine pays for drug addicts' next hit
A headline on the latest cover read: "The best alternative to (giving fellatio) on the street." The magazine has featured stories on what it says is the failed war on drugs, Portugal's decriminalisation of heavy … 'Culture change' for drug addicts …
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Sherlock: Shocking home truths are revealed and Sherlock may have finally met
He even admits to John that he "solves crime as an alternative to getting high." We have … Much like the Sherlock of Conan Doyle's books, this is a sleuth with an addiction, only this time; crime has become his methadone, his way of staying clean. We …
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Addiction Experts Worry About Effect of Dropping Hundreds of Addicted Mainers … – Bangor Daily News

Addiction experts worry about effect of dropping hundreds of addicted Mainers … – Bangor Daily News

Addiction experts worry about effect of dropping hundreds of addicted Mainers
Bangor Daily News
At the end of 2013, hundreds of recovering drug addicts lost their MaineCare coverage, in many cases limiting or ending their ability to get methadone treatment. From left, Lindey Saunders, 35, of Ellsworth; Brandi Harriman, 28, of Glenburn and Jacob 

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‘An epidemic of heroin’: Hoffman is a new face of growing problem – NBCNews.com


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'An epidemic of heroin': Hoffman is a new face of growing problem
NBCNews.com
The number of heroin users in the U.S. nearly doubled in five years, to 669,000 in 2012 from 373,000 in 2007, according to statistics from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The number who abused or grew dependent on heroin
Philip Seymour Hoffman Didn't Have to DieTruth-Out
And I guess that I just don't knowThe Economist (blog)

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Letter: Treat Drug Addiction as a Health-Care Issue, Not a Criminal One – Montreal Gazette

Letter: Treat drug addiction as a health-care issue, not a criminal one – Montreal Gazette


Montreal Gazette

Letter: Treat drug addiction as a health-care issue, not a criminal one
Montreal Gazette
dispense marijuana for medical use, can we not devise distribution centres for drug addicts in order for them to obtain their drug needs, as well as being able to help them to recover from their addiction as we now do with heroin addiction through

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Missing man sparks call for detox clinic – U.TV

Missing man sparks call for detox clinic
U.TV
His mother Colette has told UTV she believes Andrew would still be here if addiction services in the North West were better. "Andrew has tried As Andrew was gripped by the drug methadone, his family tried to get him help but found it difficult. "He

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Letter: Treat Drug Addiction as a Health-Care Issue, Not a Criminal One – Montreal Gazette

Letter: Treat drug addiction as a health-care issue, not a criminal one – Montreal Gazette


Montreal Gazette

Letter: Treat drug addiction as a health-care issue, not a criminal one
Montreal Gazette
dispense marijuana for medical use, can we not devise distribution centres for drug addicts in order for them to obtain their drug needs, as well as being able to help them to recover from their addiction as we now do with heroin addiction through

and more »

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