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Question by TheseBlueEyesWillBreakYourHeart: How easy is it to obtain a prescription for Methadone?
I am not asking so that I can get some…
Someone dear to me has just passed away. He was a cocaine addict and experienced a lot of back pain. After he died I found out he had been taking Methadone for 3 days. He had more than 100 pills prescribed by his doctor. He basically just stopped breathing in his sleep and his heart failed. Why would his doctor prescribe him Methadone when a simple blood test would confirm he occasionally takes drugs? I thought patients on Methadone were monitored not handed hundreds of pills…

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Answer by hazaamohammed
Methadone could help cocaine addicts: study

Tom Spears
Canwest News Service
11.25.08

Methadone, adrugusedformanyyears to treat heroin addiction, also appears to work well against cocaine addiction, a new Canadian study suggests.    Read more...

Methadone Drug Testing in the News

Methadone Drug Testing: South Suburban DUI Arrests, Oct. 21
30: Police pulled over a car after seeing it swerve and cross lane lines on 82nd Avenue, south of 135th Street around 3:45 a.m. The driver's breath smelled like alcohol, she admitted to texting while driving and failed field sobriety tests, police said …
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Methadone Drug Testing: 'Somebody ought to care'
After going through a custody battle for her son and struggling with multiple health problems, depression and an addiction to prescription pain killers — methadone, xanax and clonazepam — off and on for years, Truitt, 34, had been drug-free for about …
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Methadone Drug Testing: Recovering heroin addicts may lose their inner voice
One complicating factor is that the people recovering from addiction were all taking methadone. The drug has never been shown to impair working memory, Marvel says, but they plan to test whether those recovering from addiction without taking methadone …
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Methadone Drug Testing in the News

Methadone Drug Testing: 'Somebody ought to care'
After going through a custody battle for her son and struggling with multiple health problems, depression and an addiction to prescription pain killers — methadone, xanax and clonazepam — off and on for years, Truitt, 34, had been drug-free for about …
Read more on Burlington Times News

Methadone Drug Testing: Recovering heroin addicts may lose their inner voice
One complicating factor is that the people recovering from addiction were all taking methadone. The drug has never been shown to impair working memory, Marvel says, but they plan to test whether those recovering from addiction without taking methadone …
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Methadone Drug Testing: VOICE OF THE PEOPLE | November 10, 2012
Regulated testing ensures salmon are free from any medication when harvested. … I have noticed in the news that there is a refurbished RV being used as a clinic for the delivery of methadone to addicts in HRM to make it easier for them to come off drugs.
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Alcoholism Methadone: Daugther of heroin addict who died claims methadone is not the answer – Scottish Daily Record

Daugther of heroin addict who died claims methadone is not the answer Scottish Daily Record Terri has backed the Record's call for an urgent inquiry into Scotland's methadone scandal. She said: “It is great the Record is bringing this issue to light. Something needs to be done.” Recovered alcoholic Sandra Sneddon, 58, who runs Safehaven, said …

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Alcoholism Methadone: Rehabilitation favoured over methadone according to study findings – Medical Xpress

Read more... Rehabilitation favoured over methadone according to study findings Medical Xpress Participants were also asked for their experience of drug and alcohol use and a range of questions about what they knew about drugs and what they thought about drug users as people and how to treat them. Dr Matheson added: "Our study found that the …

Methadone Addicts in the News

Methadone Addicts: Pittsfield methadone clinic sparks controversy
Bob Skowron lives across the street from a proposed Methadone Clinic on Stoddard Avenue in Pittsfield. The drug abuse treatment center would serve hundreds of heroin addicts from the Berkshire County area. The process also has neighbors in an uproar.
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Methadone Addicts: Bath Salts Lead Woman to Urinate on Million Painting
Published June 22, 2012. Fox News Latino. bath-salts-art-woman_art.jpg. Fox 31 Denver. DENVER – Seven months later, life has changed dramatically for Carmen Tisch. “I was a pill popper, heroin addict. I was in the methadone clinic for while,” Tisch said.
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Methadone For Addiction in the News

Methadone For Addiction: HSE heroin treatment crisis fuels thefts surge
An Irish Independent investigation has found that heroin addicts in several areas outside Dublin, who want to be stabilised on methadone, are struggling to find a clinic or GP to take them on. It comes as the number of heroin addicts across the country …
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Methadone For Addiction: No clear-cut solution to pain, addiction fight
This is prescribed in primary care and specialized addiction settings for the purpose of treating addiction and does not have many of the same troublesome issues as methadone. For example, overdose is extremely rare. The solutions for dealing with …
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