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VA’s Lack of Pain Treatment Options Led to Opiate Addiction, Vet Says – ABC News
VA’s Lack of Pain Treatment Options Led to Opiate Addiction, Vet Says – ABC News
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VA's Lack of Pain Treatment Options Led to Opiate Addiction, Vet Says
ABC News In 2012, CIR found VA doctors wrote more than 6.5 million prescriptions for hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and morphine. That's more than the total number of patients they saw and a 270 percent increase from 2001. "That's a staggering number to me … |
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Freeport lawmaker’s overdose drug bill proceeds, along with debate – The Forecaster
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Freeport lawmaker's overdose drug bill proceeds, along with debate
The Forecaster "It's not a euphoric drug," said Chuck Romanoff, clinical supervisor at Discovery House, a drug treatment center and methadone clinic in South Portland. "It doesn't encourage people to use drugs. If anything, it discourages it because the experience is … |
Documents: Former Foothills Airport Operations Manager Caught With Somebody …
Documents: Former Foothills airport operations manager caught with somebody …
Methadone has been used for years to treat drug addiction but in recent years has also been prescribed to treat pain, according to the Centers for Disease Control. According to federal court documents, “While giving a urine sample, it was discovered …
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Leaders push for expansion of overdose-reversal drug
"Most people aren't aware of Naloxone and what it can do," said Jim Scarpace, program director at Gateway Foundation Alcohol & Drug Treatment in Aurora. … "If you have a loved one that struggles with opiate addiction in your house, you need to have it.".
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Analysis: Risk assessment bill decorated with ornaments
The legislation could give them unprecedented access to treatment at a time when they are most amenable — before or right after they are charged with a crime. For doctors, it would mean new rules for treating opiate addiction. And for police, it would …
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Methadone Clinic to Open This Week
Methadone clinic to open this week
HAVERHILL — The city has given up its fight to prevent a methadone dispensary from opening in a busy commercial area on the Plaistow, N.H. border. Methadone is a synthetic drug that is used to treat addicts suffering from heroin and other opiate …
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Methadone Clinic to Open This Week
Methadone clinic to open this week
Methadone is a synthetic drug that is used to treat addicts suffering from heroin and other opiate withdrawal. At an emergency court hearing late Friday in Newburyport Superior Court, a judge advised the city it would likely lose the case be forced to …
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Vt. spends millions on addiction-fighting drug that is diverted for street sale
The FDA made the drugs widely available because there weren't enough methadone clinics to accommodate the number of patients who wanted opiate addiction therapy. Buprenorphine is an opioid. It contains just enough of the narcotic so addicts won't …
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Drug Treatment Funding in Maine Is Falling, but Demand Is Greater Than Ever
Drug treatment funding in Maine is falling, but demand is greater than ever
The number of people seeking treatment for opiate addiction has increased 15 percent since 2010; funding has decreased by 7 percent during the same period.
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Outpatient Opioid Addiction Treatment Is More Available
Outpatient opioid addiction treatment is more available
There is now more hope to tackle the "scourge" of heroin/opiate addiction that Jennifer Weiss relate …
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Vt.'s heroin addiction aftermath: Babies on opiates, Part 1
When babies are born to moms hooked on heroin– are they addicted too? While some may call these newborns Vermont's tiniest addicts, doctors tell me with proper treatment they will not become addicted. But the road to recovery can be challenging for them and their moms.
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What Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Sponsor Could Have Done for Him
A haunting writeup in The New York Times Thursday detailed how actor Philip Seymour Hoffman spent his last days after relapsing back into heroin addiction and leaving the home he shared with his partner, Mimi O’Donnell, and their three children. Though he was surrounded by people as the end drew near, the Times piece describes how Hoffman was ultimately “a man who died alone”—which is sadly not …
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