Posts Tagged ‘opiate addiction’

Heroin use among young folks has been climbing at alarming rates over the past few years. Heroin is not just a drug found on skid row; instead it is right in almost every school system, with more and more young students experiencing heroin withdrawals requiring a need for new treatments.

Traditional treatments have not shown much success in getting patients free from the heroin. Mainly Methadone treatment is used to relieve heroin withdrawals but has some pitfalls that some of the newer medications overcome. Methadone is a full opiate and basically just a switch from an illegal drug to one that is legal and actually harder to get off of than heroin itself. Methadone is also very tightly regulated by the government and has a high abuse potential as well as overdose deaths. It can only be dispensed at government regulated clinics and patients must report to the clinic every day to receive their dose. Sometimes patients must travel many miles to get to a clinic because there are few clinics around.    Read more...

Alcoholism Methadone: Newborns are paying the price as opiate addiction rises in Maine
LEWISTON — For days, doctors and nurses kept Caleb's newborn son in a dark, quiet area of the hospital, where they hoped the baby's opiate withdrawal would be relatively quick, relatively easy.
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Alcoholism Methadone: Advocates Recognized for Outstanding Achievement at National Event – Broadcaster Pat O’Brien Speaks Out About Recovery …
Faces & Voices of Recovery has awarded four activists and one grassroots community organization for their contributions advocating for the rights of people and their families in or seeking recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Emmy-award winning reporter and anchor Pat O’Brien spoke, explaining that addiction is not a moral problem and the importance of being a voice of recovery. …
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Alcoholism Methadone: Smoking Hotlines Can Flag Problem Drinking
By Charles Feng, M.D. Hotlines to help people quit smoking could also flag problem drinking, a new study found. Yale researchers used surveys to probe alcohol use among 88,479 callers to the New York State Smoker’s Quitline and found nearly one-quarter of callers reported hazardous…
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Methadone Treatment is one of the few treatments heroin or opiate addicts can seek if they want to detox. While it has its good points, Methadone Treatment can be difficult shake and does have some pitfalls. Many patients because of the difficulties stay on what is called a Methadone Maintenance Treatment Plan (MMT). Although this is not the only reason Methadone patients stay on the maintenance program, after doing some research, it seems that fear of the difficulties and the actual difficulties involved in getting off of Methadone keep patients from trying or they fail to make it all the way off.

There are an estimated 1 million heroin addicts in the USA with a growing trend of younger middle to upper class kids getting hooked on heroin. One of the options in seeking treatment is Methadone, which is another type opiate similar to that of heroin but dispensed at federally regulated clinics called Methadone Clinics. These clinics are scattered about United States Cities, but can be difficult to get to for rural patients. Some patients need to travel many miles to get to the clinic daily for their methadone dose.    Read more...

Methadone Treatment For Opiate Addiction in the News

Methadone Treatment For Opiate Addiction: Methadone clinic before Sanford Planning Board
By Sean Murphy Staff writer | 0 comments SANFORD – The Sanford Planning Board was scheduled to hear a proposal Wednesday night from a nonprofit health care company that wants to build a substance abuse and methadone treatment clinic in town.
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Methadone Treatment For Opiate Addiction: Dispatches part 6: Inside Lynn's methadone clinic
Patricia Walsh, the vice chair of the department of Psychiatry for North Shore Medical Center, said methadone has been used for roughly 50 years, and is an effective and accepted way to treat opiate addiction. She noted that multiple studies conducted …
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Heroin use among young folks has been climbing at alarming rates over the past few years. Heroin is not just a drug found on skid row; instead it is right in almost every school system, with more and more young students experiencing heroin withdrawals requiring a need for new treatments.

Traditional treatments have not shown much success in getting patients free from the heroin. Mainly Methadone treatment is used to relieve heroin withdrawals but has some pitfalls that some of the newer medications overcome. Methadone is a full opiate and basically just a switch from an illegal drug to one that is legal and actually harder to get off of than heroin itself. Methadone is also very tightly regulated by the government and has a high abuse potential as well as overdose deaths. It can only be dispensed at government regulated clinics and patients must report to the clinic every day to receive their dose. Sometimes patients must travel many miles to get to a clinic because there are few clinics around.    Read more...

Methadone Treatment is one of the few treatments heroin or opiate addicts can seek if they want to detox. While it has its good points, Methadone Treatment can be difficult shake and does have some pitfalls. Many patients because of the difficulties stay on what is called a Methadone Maintenance Treatment Plan (MMT). Although this is not the only reason Methadone patients stay on the maintenance program, after doing some research, it seems that fear of the difficulties and the actual difficulties involved in getting off of Methadone keep patients from trying or they fail to make it all the way off.

There are an estimated 1 million heroin addicts in the USA with a growing trend of younger middle to upper class kids getting hooked on heroin. One of the options in seeking treatment is Methadone, which is another type opiate similar to that of heroin but dispensed at federally regulated clinics called Methadone Clinics. These clinics are scattered about United States Cities, but can be difficult to get to for rural patients. Some patients need to travel many miles to get to the clinic daily for their methadone dose.    Read more...