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Drug Methadone: Clinicians Say Giving Addicts Maintenance Methadone Serves Them and Society Best – Bangor Daily News

Drug Methadone: Clinicians say giving addicts maintenance methadone serves them and society best – Bangor Daily News
The Lewiston man said he needed those seven days to wean himself off methadone, the drug he had been getting at a clinic to help him kick a prescription drug habit. Thousands of addicts living “on the outside” visit Maine’s for-profit …
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Drug Methadone: Will bill capping MaineCare reimbursement for methadone treatment jeopardize addicts’ recovery? – Bangor Daily News
WESTBROOK, Maine — Their stories are different, but the bottom line is the same. Opiate addicts say methadone, the synthetic drug used in maintenance treatment of drug addiction in the United States since the 1960s, stops their cravings …
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Drug Methadone: Fatal dose not first time toddler given methadone – Bristol Evening Post
They were drug addicts, whose need for drugs came before Jayden Lee.” Mr Mousley said that at some point between the night of August 20 and the morning of August 21 Jayden Lee was given the methadone and hours later the little boy was dead. “That drug was …
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Drug Methadone: Father Found Guilty of Killing Baby by Giving Him Methadone – This Is Bristol

Drug Methadone: Father found guilty of killing baby by giving him methadone – This is Bristol

Father found guilty of killing baby by giving him methadone
This is Bristol
They were drug addicts, whose need for drugs came before Jayden Lee.” Mr Mousley said that at some point between the night of August 20 and the morning of August 21 Jayden Lee was given the methadone and hours later the little boy was dead.

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Drug Methadone: Drug death role put to trial – Appleton Post Crescent

Drug death role put to trial
Appleton Post Crescent
Len Kachinsky, defense attorney for Kristi L. Schounard, maintains his client wasn't part of the drug deal that preceded Jordan Rowe's 2010 methadone overdose. Schounard, 42, appeared Wednesday in Outagamie County Court for the first day of a jury …

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'
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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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MP Questions Methadone Treatment

Drug Methadone: MP questions methadone treatment
A Family First MP has questioned the value of methadone treatment for drug addicts.
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Drug Methadone: Police Arrest 10 Alleged Drug Dealers, 2 Users In Union Square's 'Methadone Alley'
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 , the NYPD came in and cracked down on the drug users who had settled there. Good, right? But twelve months later grim scene was back and so, on …
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Drug Methadone: Doctors Decide on Methadone Carries: Minister
The province's Health Minister says when it comes to methadone, it's up to a doctor to decide which patients are stable enough take the drug home with them.
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Drug Methadone: Doctors Decide Best Course of Methadone Treatment: Health Minister
The province's Health Minister says when it comes to methadone, it's up to a doctor to decide which patients are stable enough take the drug home with them.
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Drug Methadone: Police Arrest 10 Alleged Drug Dealers, 2 Users in Union Square’s ‘Methadone Alley’ – Gothamist

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, …

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Drug Methadone: UM drug treatment center a magnet for crime – Baltimore Sun

UM drug treatment center a magnet for crime
Baltimore Sun
It's interesting that the school found that convenience stores bring crime to a neighborhood because of the foot traffic they generate. How else would the university describe bringing 600 or so drug addicts a day to a methadone treatment center except …
MP questions methadone treatmentSky News Australia

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Drug Methadone: MP Questions Methadone Treatment

Drug Methadone: MP questions methadone treatment
A Family First MP has questioned the value of methadone treatment for drug addicts.
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Drug Methadone: Pharmacy closure puts new focus on methadone program
Newfoundland and Labrador's methadone program is coming under increasing scrutiny, as a mother claims an underground market helped kill her teenage son.
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Drug Methadone: Police probe methadone deaths
Fatal drug overdoses remain a sad, consistent reality. Heroin remains the most prominent poison of choice among the dead counted in Tazewell and Peoria counties over the past several years. An ironic trend has emerged in Tazewell, however, that has put Pekin’s and other area police agencies on a hunt. In every one of the six deaths in the county so far this year that have been officially …
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Drug Methadone: Methadone program displaced from St. John's pharmacy
Patients receiving methadone replacement therapy through a pharmacy in St. John's have been directed elsewhere following the dispensary's closure.
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Drug Methadone: Jail for killing mate with methadone
A New Plymouth man asked his mate to get him high but collapsed and died immediately after he was injected with a fatal dose of methadone.
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