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Vietnam Urges More Methadone Treatment for People Who Use Drugs – Media for Freedom

Vietnam urges more methadone treatment for people who use drugs – Media For Freedom

Vietnam urges more methadone treatment for people who use drugs
Media For Freedom
Statistics by the HIV/AIDS Prevention Department of the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Vietnam shows that currently there are about 170,000 drug users in the listed record of the country. Vietnam is urging more methadone treatment for people who use drugs 

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Improvements suggested for Montana Prescription Drug Registry – KBZK Bozeman News

Improvements suggested for Montana Prescription Drug Registry
KBZK Bozeman News
She said, for example, that one doctor in a small practice was known for prescribing the powerful drugs methadone and dilaudid for abuse, and gained a following of patients from around the state and beyond. Mark Long, chief of the Montana Narcotics 

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Some of the Harrowing Cases of Children in Care

Some of the harrowing cases of children in care
*A baby born to a homeless drug addict suffered withdrawal symptoms for the first six weeks of her life: A full care order was granted for two young children of a homeless drug user in the Dublin District Court. The younger child was born with …
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Las Vegas Rapid Detox Clinic Celebrates 500 Rapid Opiate Detox Patient Milestone

Las Vegas Rapid Detox Clinic Celebrates 500 Rapid Opiate Detox Patient Milestone
The Las Vegas Rapid Detox Clinic is honored to announce that they have reached the milestone of performing Five Hundred Successful Rapid Opiate Detox Procedures without complication. (PRWeb October 20, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/10-20-13-rapid-detox/rapid-opiate-detox/prweb11250339.htm
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Vancouver drug users to challenge federal ban on prescribed heroin
Five Vancouver drug users are launching a legal challenge against a federal ban on prescription heroin.
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.2M in new initiatives announced to tackle addictions epidemic in P.E.I.
The P.E.I. government will spend $ 1.2 million in immediate initiatives to deal with prescription drug addiction in the province and has pledged to come up with a long-term strategy to improve mental health and addictions services. Health Minister Doug Currie told a packed room of stakeholders …
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5.3 Percent of Afghan Population Are Drug Users

5.3 percent of Afghan population are drug users
Cementing the status quo is a lack of treatment options, like methadone substitution, or a holistic plan to address the crisis. “This is a tsunami for our country,” said Dr. Ahmad Fawad Osmani, the director of drug demand reduction for the Ministry of …
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Behavioral Health Group (BHG) Acquires Midsouth Treatment Center, Dyersburg
DALLAS, Nov. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Michael Cannizzaro, Behavioral Health Group (BHG) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, announced the acquisition of Midsouth Treatment Center, a medically supervised treatment center for pain pill and opioid …
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Double murderer jailed for 22 years
Brown argued in a trial that he had been legally insane at the time because his admirable bid to detoxify himself of methadone had "unmasked" an antisocial personality disorder and post traumatic stress disorder resulting from childhood abuse. Supreme …
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Methadone Coverage Could Return to Medicaid Menu

Methadone coverage could return to Medicaid menu
The Illinois Medicaid program is weighing whether to resume covering methadone treatments, a proposal likely to stir up controversy.
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Long-term methadone use is form of ‘State-sponsored social control’
Some addicts had been on the methadone treatment programme for 20 years
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Novus Medical Detox Comments on Proposed California Bill—Drug Users Need Treatment Instead of Prison Sentences
Florida-based detox center Novus Medical Detox says California’s recently proposed bill suggesting the use of treatment instead of prison sentences is a step in the right direction for gaining control of the current drug epidemic in the U.S., as well as reducing the costs of housing nonviolent offenders. (PRWeb November 04, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/11 …
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Red Tape Keeps Methadone Clinic in Ipswich’s New-Look CBD – the Queensland Times

Red tape keeps methadone clinic in Ipswich’s new-look CBD – The Queensland Times

Red tape keeps methadone clinic in Ipswich's new-look CBD
The Queensland Times
CITY workers will be mixing it with drug addicts on Brisbane St, as they wait for a CBD methadone clinic's afternoon opening time during the lunch-time rush. As the first of 1200 public servants have moved into Icon Ipswich, concerns are growing that a 

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Oakdale woman pleads guilty in methadone death – Minneapolis Star Tribune


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Oakdale woman pleads guilty in methadone death
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Methadone is a powerful, potentially life-threatening drug that has various medical uses such as treating addictions to narcotic drugs such as heroin. Washington County didn't offer any concessions in the plea before Judge Ellen Maas, said prosecutor

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