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Methadone Clinics: Warren to finally consider proposal for methadone clinic – Bangor Daily News

Warren to finally consider proposal for methadone clinic Bangor Daily News By Stephen Betts, BDN Staff WARREN, Maine — The long stalled proposal for a methadone clinic in Warren will be heard by the town planning board next week. The planning board has scheduled a meeting for 7 pm Thursday, May 31, at the Warren Community … and more »

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Methadone Clinics: Commissioner approve new drug treatment zoning rules – Elizabethton Star

Commissioner approve new drug treatment zoning rules Elizabethton Star He said patients from nearby methadone clinics in Western North Carolina frequently drive through Carter County. “These people gas up at our convenience stores,” Chambers said. “They often ride together to go to the clinics.

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Methadone Clinics: Methadone clinic faces hearing in Warren – Bangor Daily News
WARREN, Maine — The long stalled proposal for a methadone clinic in Warren will be heard by the town planning board next week. The planning board has scheduled a meeting for 7 p.m. Thursday, May 31, at the Warren Community School to again hear …
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Methadone Clinics: Drug Dealers Targeting Methadone Clinic Arrested – Albany Times Union (blog)
About a year ago I wrote a blog post about the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Solutions Methadone Clinic at 10 DeWitt Street (pictured below) near Eggy’s Place. Having visited Eggy’s for the fantastic egg and ham sandwich, I saw alleged drug dealing taking …
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Methadone Detox: Number of US newborns with drug withdrawal triples – WSFA
CHICAGO (AP) – Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her mouth. The infant is going through drug withdrawal and is being treated with the same narcotic prescribed …
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Methadone Detox: More newborns undergoing drug withdrawal – South Bend Tribune
CHICAGO — Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her mouth. The infant is going through drug withdrawal and is being treated with the same narcotic …
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Methadone Detox: Clinton woman indicted on assault, endangerment charges – Knoxville News Sentinel
CLINTON — A woman who admitted taking OxyContin and methadone throughout her pregnancy and skipping … After birth, Jamica Nicole Maples’ baby started showing symptoms of drug withdrawal, according to an arrest warrant. The infant had to …
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Methadone Detox: Dispatches part 6: Inside Lynn’s methadone clinic – Daily Item

Dispatches part 6: Inside Lynn's methadone clinic Daily Item She went to her first detox center in 2001, but said she did it mostly to appease her parents. “I went home and my parents thought OK she's cured, she's got the drugs out of her system and things are going to be good again, but it wasn't,” she said …

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Methadone Detox: Suboxone: The Methadone of Oxycodone? – Knoxville City View

Suboxone: The Methadone of Oxycodone? Knoxville City View When it was first developed in the 1950s as a treatment for heroin addiction, methadone was hailed as a miracle drug. It was effectively used to reduce or eliminate cravings and withdrawal symptoms in patients addicted to heroin, all with a single …

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Drug Methadone: Cape Breton Police recover stolen Methadone
The Cape Breton Regional Police have recovered dozens of bottles of Methadone that they say was stolen from Sexton's Drugstore in Sydney Mines early Friday morning.
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Drug Methadone: Police Arrest 10 Alleged Drug Dealers, 2 Users In Union Square's 'Methadone Alley'
The problem with cracking down on drug addicts is that once you stop, they just come back. Take, for example, the so-called "Methadone Alley" on the east side of Union Square. Last year, after concerns arose the area was going back to the bad old days , the NYPD came in and cracked down on the drug users who had settled there. Good, right? But twelve months later grim scene was back and so, on …
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Drug Methadone: Drugs added to killer-truck crash charges
Police allege a truck driver was under the influence of methadone when his B-double collided with a car and killed a man and his parents instantly.
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Methadone rehabilitation must be comprehensive and lasting in order to lower acute withdrawal symptoms over the long term. There are many components to Methadone rehabilitation, since getting methadone addicts off methadone may be harder than getting heroin addicts off heroin. The reason being, methadone produces a physical dependence and a painful and prolonged withdrawal.

Although fraught with the perils of possible overdose and death by combining methadone with alcohol or anti-anxiety medications, and by the sure fire fact that you will acquire a methadone dependency, methadone use for the treatment of heroin addiction has been largely successful. One of the reasons methadone use has been called into question is because of its recent use as a medication for chronic pain. This occurred due to the abuse of oxycontin for chronic pain and the illegal market for it that ensued. Unfortunately, the pain relief from methadone lasts for 12 hours but the drug stays in your body for much longer.    Read more...