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Rise in Heroin Use Leads to More Patients at Treatment Centers – Insurance News Net (Press Release)

Rise in heroin use leads to more patients at treatment centers – Insurance News Net (press release)

Rise in heroin use leads to more patients at treatment centers
Insurance News Net (press release)
In the original, information about methadone withdrawal was incorrect. In 2013, 43 percent of the Wilmington Treatment Center's 2,421 patients were treated for opiate addiction. Addiction recovery groups in the area hold 135 meetings per week. The

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Legislators are told addiction services are fragmented, clients younger – Worcester Telegram

Legislators are told addiction services are fragmented, clients younger
Worcester Telegram
Dr. DiLorenzo also called for more physicians who could administer Suboxone, a semi-synthetic opiod used to treat opiate addiction, which is considered to have lower risk for abuse than Methadone. The perverse byproduct of relatively few inpatient beds
'Epidemic' opiate crisis addressed at hearingThe Sun
Addiction-treatment workers at Fitchburg forum: 'We can't afford to have it fail'Sentinel and Enterprise

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Stop Drug Use – the Virginian-Pilot

Stop drug use – The Virginian-Pilot

Stop drug use
The Virginian-Pilot
Stronger, truly addictive drugs are health issues and drug addiction should be treated as an illness – not as a crime. Other countries provide addicts with drugs as medicines (we do,too, with Methadone which is basically heroin) undercutting the

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Addiction begins easily; recovery takes effort – nwitimes.com

Addiction begins easily; recovery takes effort
nwitimes.com
Methadone treatment is 100 percent voluntary,” said Victoria Charleston, director of addiction at Edgewater Systems at The Turning Point building, which is the organization's addiction services center, at 1110 W. 5th Ave. in Gary. “Addiction is a

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Hagerstown methadone clinic plans move – Herald-Mail Media

Drug Users Recruit Pensioners for Pain Medication – Wellington Times

Drug users recruit pensioners for pain medication – Wellington Times

Drug users recruit pensioners for pain medication
Wellington Times
Abuse had resulted in a significant jump of Hunter people entering the methadone program, traditionally used to treat heroin addiction, for prescription opioid abuse. ''Currently, about 20 per cent of people we see on the methadone program [are there

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Fight with heroin addiction leads Crystal Bonsel along a winding road – Marion Star

Fight with heroin addiction leads Crystal Bonsel along a winding road
Marion Star
Those stopped working so I got Perc 30s and methadone. Eventually, I couldn't get the Perc 30s (30-milligram Percocet pills)…,” and she turned to heroin in May 2012. Despite a stay at Talbot Hall in Columbus for addiction recovery services, which

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Heroin Homicide Charge a First in Rock Island County – Quad City Times

Heroin homicide charge a first in Rock Island County – Quad City Times

Heroin homicide charge a first in Rock Island County
Quad City Times
Steward's is the first case a defendant has been charged with drug-induced homicide in the 14th Judicial Circuit, which includes Rock Island, Henry, Mercer and Whiteside counties. "With the evidence we will be presenting, we Carrie Hoon was

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Drug users recruit pensioners for pain medication – Armidale Express

Drug users recruit pensioners for pain medication
Armidale Express
Abuse had resulted in a significant jump of Hunter people entering the methadone program, traditionally used to treat heroin addiction, for prescription opioid abuse. ''Currently, about 20 per cent of people we see on the methadone program [are there

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Milton Physician Pleads Guilty to Illegally Prescribing Drug Used to Treat … – Insurance News Net (Press Release)

Milton Physician Pleads Guilty to Illegally Prescribing Drug Used to Treat … – Insurance News Net (press release)

Milton Physician Pleads Guilty to Illegally Prescribing Drug Used to Treat
Insurance News Net (press release)
The former head of a substance abuse clinic in Brighton pleaded guilty to charges that he illegally prescribed a drug used to treat opiate addiction and collected illegal fees from patients, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced today. the drug

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Heroin Epidemic Exposes Deficiencies in Care System – Boston Globe

Heroin epidemic exposes deficiencies in care system – Boston Globe

Heroin epidemic exposes deficiencies in care system
Boston Globe
A surge in heroin overdoses in Massachusetts has exposed a complicated and overburdened substance abuse treatment system with demand for recovery beds chronically outpacing supply, insurance covering only a few services, and families increasingly

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Drug users recruit pensioners for pain medication – Esperance Express

Drug users recruit pensioners for pain medication
Esperance Express
Abuse had resulted in a significant jump of Hunter people entering the methadone program, traditionally used to treat heroin addiction, for prescription opioid abuse. ''Currently, about 20 per cent of people we see on the methadone program [are there

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