Posts Tagged ‘drug treatment’
Methadone Given to Girl at Age 4 Started Her Slow Death – Columbus Dispatch
Methadone given to girl at age 4 started her slow death – Columbus Dispatch
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Methadone given to girl at age 4 started her slow death
Columbus Dispatch Four days before her fifth birthday, on Oct. 7, 2010, Amya was sick and having trouble sleeping in her South Side home. In an attempt to make her feel better, a family friend gave her a sip of methadone. The synthetic drug, normally prescribed to … |
Ireland has 9615 methadone users but care plans needed to get them drug-free – thejournal.ie
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Ireland has 9615 methadone users but care plans needed to get them drug-free
thejournal.ie Tony Geoghegan, CEO of Merchants Quay told TheJournal.ie, that while it is better to have people on a legal and controlled drug like methadone than heroin, but said it would be better if people weren't left languishing on methadone, with no care-plans … |
Boston to Shutter Drug Treatment Facility – Boston Globe
Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe
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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 … |
Methadone Clinics – Google News
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe Boston health officials are poised to close the city's only public methadone clinic at a time when heroin overdoses, which methadone is used to combat, are rising dramatically across the state. Shutting the clinic, which has offered methadone to opiate … |
Methadone Clinics – Google News
Bain Capital Sees Opportunity In Methadone Clinics – Huffington Post
Boston to Shutter Drug Treatment Facility – Boston Globe
Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe
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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
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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 … |
Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News
US Officials Call for Greater Use of Medications to Treat Drug Abuse – Voice of America
Boston to Shutter Drug Treatment Facility – Boston Globe
Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe
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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 … |
Methadone Clinics – Google News
Bain Capital Sees Opportunity In Methadone Clinics – Huffington Post
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Bain Capital Sees Opportunity In Methadone Clinics
Huffington Post ST. JOHNSBURY, VT – FEBRUARY 06: Drugs are prepared to shoot intravenously by a user addicted to heroin on February 6, 2014 in St. Johnsbury Vermont. Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin recently devoted his entire State of the State speech to the … |
Methadone Clinics – Google News
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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
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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
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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 … |
Millennium Treatment Group Offers Great Treatment Option for Recent Increase …
Millennium Treatment Group Offers Great Treatment Option for Recent Increase …
Opiate addiction is on the rise in the Tampa area. Millennium Treatment Group has seen a recent increase in the number of patients needing treatment. Because of this, Millennium Treatment Group is offering a great addiction treatment option for those …
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Editorial: Patrick tackles opiate addiction
This last step, if not implemented carefully, risks unfairly branding as conspirators physicians who specialize in treating chronic pain. But it has been clear to addiction experts for years that opiate-based prescription drugs are the leading cause of …
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Roseville woman trying to overcome 10-year heroin addiction
She was released from inpatient drug treatment in January and entered the Macomb County Circuit Drug Court program. … She tried rehab a few times while in the midst of her addiction, including going on and being weaned off methadone. Now she …
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