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Drug Methadone: Methadone may come under closer supervision in Minnesota
ST. PAUL – Minnesota legislators likely will debate proposals next year to slap tighter supervision on the use of the potent drug methadone, used to treat pain and addictions to illegal drugs such as heroin.
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Drug Methadone: HIV Soars Among Greece’s Drug Users Amid Austerity
HIV infections among drug users in Greece jumped more than 20-fold in fewer than two years, fueled by a lack of needle exchange and methadone programs, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
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Drug Methadone: Professor: Methadone deaths multiplied over 9 years
A new report shows drug-related deaths are steadily increasing in Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater epidemiologist David Nordstrom reviewed nearly 5,000 deaths that were certified as drug-related between 1999 and 2008. Most were accidental overdoses or suicides and the majority involved male victims with an average age of about 43. Nordstrom found a shift in which deaths related to …
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Drug Methadone: Wider Availability of Methadone Helps Curb HIV in Vietnam
Treatment for intravenous drug users in Vietnam remains a very sensitive subject, but the expansion of methadone treatment has been welcomed by HIV clinicians. In 2002 international donors warned that rapidly rising numbers of HIV/AIDS cases could threaten Vietnam’s economic development. A decade later aid groups are praising the country for expanding harm reduction policies, at least in the …
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Drug Methadone: Drug addicts used prescription forms stolen from a doctor’s car
HOMELESS drug addicts used blank prescription forms stolen from a doctor’s car to try to get hold of methadone, a court heard.
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Drug Methadone: Wisconsin drug deaths on the rise – Superior Telegram

Wisconsin drug deaths on the rise Superior Telegram Nordstrom says deaths from the synthetic drug methadone, which is used to treat heroin addiction skyrocketed from 10 in 1999 to 118 in 2008, an increase of more than 1,000. Tom Ritchie has been a substance abuse coordinator for 30 years and now works … and more »

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Drug Methadone: Methadone may come under closer supervision – DL-Online

Methadone may come under closer supervision DL-Online Minnesota legislators likely will debate proposals next year to slap tighter supervision on the use of the potent drug methadone, used to treat pain and addictions to illegal drugs such as heroin. By: Don Davis, Forum Communications, DL-Online. Phil … and more »

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Methadone Urine Drug Testing in the News

Methadone Urine Drug Testing: Pills prove a prescription for addiction
Briscoe says urine testing would also allow doctors to check patients are taking their medication safely because people on opioids are at high risk of overdose if they mix them with alcohol or other drugs. She says that in the US, where monitoring of …
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Methadone Urine Drug Testing: With the Fiscal Cliff Only Weeks Away, Drug Inventor and FDA lawyer Creates …
In 1972, Steve co-developed a non-abusable form of methadone to help people suffering with drug addiction. In 1973, he developed the lab screening method used to detect illegal drugs in urine. He continued to bring life-saving treatments to people who …
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Drug Methadone: Methadone may come under closer supervision in Minnesota
ST. PAUL – Minnesota legislators likely will debate proposals next year to slap tighter supervision on the use of the potent drug methadone, used to treat pain and addictions to illegal drugs such as heroin.
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Drug Methadone: Professor: Methadone deaths multiplied over 9 years
A new report shows drug-related deaths are steadily increasing in Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater epidemiologist David Nordstrom reviewed nearly 5,000 deaths that were certified as drug-related between 1999 and 2008. Most were accidental overdoses or suicides and the majority involved male victims with an average age of about 43. Nordstrom found a shift in which deaths related to …
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Drug Methadone: Editorial: Ending Jail Methadone
The decision by Bernalillo County's Metropolitan Detention Center to stop providing methadone …
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Drug Methadone: Wider Availability of Methadone Helps Curb HIV in Vietnam
Treatment for intravenous drug users in Vietnam remains a very sensitive subject, but the expansion of methadone treatment has been welcomed by HIV clinicians. In 2002 international donors warned that rapidly rising numbers of HIV/AIDS cases could threaten Vietnam’s economic development. A decade later aid groups are praising the country for expanding harm reduction policies, at least in the …
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Methadone Urine Drug Testing in the News

Methadone Urine Drug Testing: Pills prove a prescription for addiction
Briscoe says urine testing would also allow doctors to check patients are taking their medication safely because people on opioids are at high risk of overdose if they mix them with alcohol or other drugs. She says that in the US, where monitoring of …
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Methadone Urine Drug Testing: With the Fiscal Cliff Only Weeks Away, Drug Inventor and FDA lawyer Creates …
In 1972, Steve co-developed a non-abusable form of methadone to help people suffering with drug addiction. In 1973, he developed the lab screening method used to detect illegal drugs in urine. He continued to bring life-saving treatments to people who …
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Drug Methadone: Methadone may come under closer supervision in Minnesota
ST. PAUL – Minnesota legislators likely will debate proposals next year to slap tighter supervision on the use of the potent drug methadone, used to treat pain and addictions to illegal drugs such as heroin.
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Drug Methadone: Methadone ‘stranding’ drug users, insist critics
THE USE of the heroin substitute methadone to help addicts kick their habit has come under attack with a warning that many drug users are being left “stranded in the system”.
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Drug Methadone: Drug addicts left 'stranded' on methadone
DRUG addicts are being left "stranded" on methadone and not getting all the help they need to recover, Labour has claimed.
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Drug Methadone: Professor: Methadone deaths multiplied over 9 years
A new report shows drug-related deaths are steadily increasing in Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater epidemiologist David Nordstrom reviewed nearly 5,000 deaths that were certified as drug-related between 1999 and 2008. Most were accidental overdoses or suicides and the majority involved male victims with an average age of about 43. Nordstrom found a shift in which deaths related to …
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