Posts Tagged ‘heroin addict’

New State Regulations Make Heroin Treatment Challenging – Taunton Daily Gazette

New state regulations make heroin treatment challenging – Taunton Daily Gazette

New state regulations make heroin treatment challenging
Taunton Daily Gazette
That appealed to many addicts from suburban or professional backgrounds – people who didn't want the stigma of attending methadone clinics, which require daily oral treatment. "I am without a doubt certain that if I didn't have Suboxone, I would be

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Alcoholism Methadone – Google News

Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe

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

Alcoholism Methadone – Google News

Wide Variability in State Access to SUD Meds – Medscape

Annexation Bad News for Crimea's Rehab Patients

Annexation Bad News For Crimea's Rehab Patients
Perhaps no Crimeans will feel these changes more keenly than the 800 heroin addicts currently undergoing methadone treatment on the peninsula. On March 26, less than a week after formally completing its annexation, Russia announced it was banning the …
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What professionals say about pain pills and addiction
Dr. Frank Filippelli, a Des Moines addiction treatment specialist, said it should be no surprise that Americans have a serious problem with painkiller abuse. "We have 5 percent of the world's population, and we use 75 percent of the world's …
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Student faces Facebook page probe
According to a report from the HCM City AIDS Prevention Committee, at least 1,461 addicts out of 16,000 addicts were treated with methadone between 2011 and 2013. The existing methadone treatment centres are located in the districts of 4,6, 8, Binh …
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Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics – Boston Globe

Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe


Boston Globe

Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Boston Globe
Heroin and prescription drug addiction is “a giant problem in Boston; it's a giant problem across the country,'' said General Barry R. McCaffrey, who served as drug czar in the Clinton administration and has been on the CRC Health board since before

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Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM
Methadone entered the public consciousness in the 1950s when American doctors began using it to treat heroin addiction. Today, about 500,000 people are participating in methadone treatment programs nationwide, including several hundred locally.

Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

Part Two: The methadone program is an uphill battle, says Jared Evely – Northern Pen

Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics – Boston Globe

Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe


Boston Globe

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

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Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug addict destroyed a clinic window after being refused a methadone … – Llanelli Star

Drug addict destroyed a clinic window after being refused a methadone
Llanelli Star
A DRUG addict told police "I was off my nut" after destroying a clinic window and medical equipment because he was refused a methadone prescription. Patrick Wayne Lewis, 25, from Cae Cottages in Llwynhendy, was jailed for 10 weeks after pleading guilty …

Drug Methadone – Google News

Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics – Boston Globe

Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe


Boston Globe

Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Boston Globe
Heroin and prescription drug addiction is “a giant problem in Boston; it's a giant problem across the country,'' said General Barry R. McCaffrey, who served as drug czar in the Clinton administration and has been on the CRC Health board since before

and more »

Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM
Methadone entered the public consciousness in the 1950s when American doctors began using it to treat heroin addiction. Today, about 500,000 people are participating in methadone treatment programs nationwide, including several hundred locally.

Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

Part Two: The methadone program is an uphill battle, says Jared Evely – Northern Pen

Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics – Boston Globe

Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe


Boston Globe

Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Boston Globe
Heroin and prescription drug addiction is “a giant problem in Boston; it's a giant problem across the country,'' said General Barry R. McCaffrey, who served as drug czar in the Clinton administration and has been on the CRC Health board since before

and more »

Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM
Methadone entered the public consciousness in the 1950s when American doctors began using it to treat heroin addiction. Today, about 500,000 people are participating in methadone treatment programs nationwide, including several hundred locally.

Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

Jared Evely says the methadone program is an uphill battle – Grand Falls-Windsor Advertiser