Posts Tagged ‘methadone maintenance’
Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics – Boston Globe
Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe
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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 … |
Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News
Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM
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Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM (WZZM) – A drug introduced 75 years ago to wean addicts off heroin is now the leading cause of prescription overdose deaths in Kent County. The drug is methadone. It is widely prescribed as an inexpensive pain killer, but has become a killer in its own … |
Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News
The heroin addiction scourge – The Daily News of Newburyport
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 … |
Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News
Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM
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Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM (WZZM) – A drug introduced 75 years ago to wean addicts off heroin is now the leading cause of prescription overdose deaths in Kent County. The drug is methadone. It is widely prescribed as an inexpensive pain killer, but has become a killer in its own … |
Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News
The heroin addiction scourge – The Daily News of Newburyport
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You are invited to attend a public meeting at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Trenton from 6-8 p.m. to support this proposal to provide Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) services in your community. A panel of content experts and health …
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The Dilemma of Prescription Opioids: Shifting Attitudes Towards the Pain Patient
The dilemma of prescription opioids: Shifting attitudes towards the pain patient
Moralism has shaped health provider attitudes toward pain patients, leading to under-use – especially along racial and class-stratified lines – of substitution opioid therapies such as methadone maintenance. Moral beliefs and values have influenced …
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Bob the Street Cat books sell 1m copies in UK
The pair became well-known in London, going on to attract the attention of a literary agent, who sold Bowen's story of how, with Bob's help, he would get over his addictions to heroin and methadone, to Hodder & Stoughton. The publisher said today that …
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Stop drug use
Again, the result of the drug laws are more dangerous than the drugs would otherwise be. Other countries have found success in decriminalizing drugs and treating addiction as an illness. Time for a new approach … Stronger, truly addictive drugs are …
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Boston’s Only Public Methadone Clinic May Shut – Boston Globe
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe They have been to detox probably 50 to 100 times, they always relapse, and they have to find something.” Methadone is a synthetic narcotic that has been used for decades to reduce the craving for opiates, such as heroin, and their withdrawal symptoms. |
Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures – The Intelligencer
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Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures
The Intelligencer … is standard medical protocols believe the risk of danger to the woman and fetus is too great. Instead, they are placed in a methadone replacement program at an outside state-certified treatment center. … In her third day of heroin detox in the … |
Why drug users should be decriminalised – Irish Times
Crimeans Lose Their Access to Methadone and McDonald’s – Quartz
Crimeans lose their access to methadone and McDonald’s – Quartz
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Crimeans lose their access to methadone and McDonald's
Quartz As Western leaders continue attempts to cajole and threaten Russia away from Crimea, the Kremlin is beginning to flex its muscle in the region-starting with shuttering methadone clinics that help rehabilitate heroin addicts, and likely prompting the … |
Methadone Clinics – Google News
My Neighbor, The Methadone Clinic: Part II – Brooklyn Reader
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My Neighbor, The Methadone Clinic: Part II
Brooklyn Reader “We have the same bag,” said Belinda White, pointing to her bag, a grey cloth version of my Michael Kors laptop carrier. White is in her 60s. She is a patient at START, a drug treatment center, located at 937 Fulton Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. I … |
Methadone Clinics – Google News
My Neighbor, the Methadone Clinic: Part I – Brooklyn Reader