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Drug Tests Methadone: Recent Drug Deaths Ruled Accidental

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Drug Tests Methadone: Recent drug deaths ruled accidental
The toxicology testing confirmed the presence of methadone, as well as diazepam, alprazolam and marijuana, Nonn said. ***. The investigation surrounding the death of Shane Lee Ledbetter, 29, also resulted in it being deemed accidental. Ledbetter, of …
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Drug Tests Methadone: Researchers Find Plant Compound Effective in Making Drug Withdrawal Bearable
They begin with recreational use and don't think they will become addicted, but (they) soon get to the point where they almost must take the drug to survive, because withdrawal is so intense," McCurdy said in a news release. Researchers tested the …
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Drug Methadone: Drug Users Turn Death Dealers as Methadone Hits Street Through Clinics – Mcalester News Capital

Drug Methadone: Drug users turn death dealers as methadone hits street through clinics – Mcalester News Capital

Drug users turn death dealers as methadone hits street through clinics
Mcalester News Capital
Take-home methadone – doses patients carry out instead of taking at clinics – enabled the abuse, said Vanlieu, 26, who was sentenced to six years in prison for dealing the drug to Plemons. While she didn't sell it to her friend, she said in an

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Drug Methadone: Methadone clinic reaches out to Tomah heroin abusers – La Crosse Tribune

Methadone clinic reaches out to Tomah heroin abusers
La Crosse Tribune
In the 70s, methadone clinics were known for dispensing the narcotic only, without any oversight or monitoring of its patients. "We're so much more than that," Erdman said. AMS dispenses the drug as a way to treat heroin and other opiate addictions.

Drug Methadone: Drug Users Turn Death Dealers as Methadone Hits Street Through Clinics – Mcalester News Capital

Drug Methadone: Drug users turn death dealers as methadone hits street through clinics – Mcalester News Capital

Drug users turn death dealers as methadone hits street through clinics
Mcalester News Capital
Take-home methadone – doses patients carry out instead of taking at clinics – enabled the abuse, said Vanlieu, 26, who was sentenced to six years in prison for dealing the drug to Plemons. While she didn't sell it to her friend, she said in an

and more »

Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: Methadone clinic reaches out to Tomah heroin abusers – La Crosse Tribune

Methadone clinic reaches out to Tomah heroin abusers
La Crosse Tribune
In the 70s, methadone clinics were known for dispensing the narcotic only, without any oversight or monitoring of its patients. "We're so much more than that," Erdman said. AMS dispenses the drug as a way to treat heroin and other opiate addictions.

Drug Methadone: Drug Users Turn Death Dealers as Methadone Hits Street Through Clinics

Drug Methadone: Drug users turn death dealers as methadone hits street through clinics
Liquid methadone, used for decades to help addicts abate withdrawal symptoms as they quit heroin or other opiates, is leaking into illegal street sales via take-home doses, according to law-enforcement officials in Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia.
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Drug Methadone: Drug Users Turn Death Dealers as Methadone From Bain Hits Street
After Jennifer Vanlieu turned to methadone treatment to beat an addiction to heroin and pain pills, she morphed from drug-user to convicted drug-dealer.
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Drug Methadone: Methadone clinic reaches out to Tomah heroin abusers
Addiction Medical Solutions of Wisconsin is reaching out to Tomah residents in an effort to help curb the area's growing heroin problem.
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Drug Methadone: Drug overdoses claimed 30 lives in area last year
Thirty people died from drug overdoses in the Tri-County Area last year and 29 other people committed suicide.
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Drug Methadone: Morton teen faces guilty plea or trial in drug deaths
A Morton teenager has the choice of a March trial or a guilty plea on charges involving the deaths of two other young men who drank fatal doses of a prescription drug he allegedly sold to them.
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Drug Methadone: Drug Users Turn Death Dealers as Methadone Hits Street Through Clinics

Drug Methadone: Drug users turn death dealers as methadone hits street through clinics
Liquid methadone, used for decades to help addicts abate withdrawal symptoms as they quit heroin or other opiates, is leaking into illegal street sales via take-home doses, according to law-enforcement officials in Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia.
Drug Methadone – Yahoo! News Search Results

Drug Methadone: Drug Users Turn Death Dealers as Methadone From Bain Hits Street
After Jennifer Vanlieu turned to methadone treatment to beat an addiction to heroin and pain pills, she morphed from drug-user to convicted drug-dealer.
Drug Methadone – Yahoo! News Search Results

Drug Methadone: Morton teen faces guilty plea or trial in drug deaths
A Morton teenager has the choice of a March trial or a guilty plea on charges involving the deaths of two other young men who drank fatal doses of a prescription drug he allegedly sold to them.
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Drug Methadone: Addicts, researchers say new drug trumps methadone at curbing addiction
IT'LL BE two years Wednesday. Two years since Nicole Kapulsky ceased her daily injections of heroin and began getting monthly injections of Vivitrol, an FDA-approved medication that prevents opiate addicts from getting high.
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Drug Methadone: Drug Users Turn Death Dealers as Methadone Hits Street Through Clinics – Concord Monitor

Drug Methadone: Drug users turn death dealers as methadone hits street through clinics – Concord Monitor

Drug users turn death dealers as methadone hits street through clinics
Concord Monitor
Graphic shows that while the number of U.S. overdose deaths involving methadone peaked in 2007, it was still almost six times higher in 2010, the most recent year for which data are available, than in 1999. The data don't reflect the source of the

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Drug Methadone: Trenton substance abuse facility director helps provide Methadone treatments … – The Times of Trenton – NJ.com

Trenton substance abuse facility director helps provide Methadone treatments
The Times of Trenton – NJ.com
Nieves, with a team of people, deployed the first-ever emergency response mobile medication unit to deliver methadone to active and recovering addicts in areas affected by Hurricane Sandy. The unit was awarded to New Horizons in a contract through the