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Methadone Safety: New Clinical Practice Guideline From American Pain Society
Methadone safety: New clinical practice guideline from American Pain Society
Improved physician education and patient counseling about methadone safety and ECG monitoring to identify patients at high risk for cardiac problems will lead to safer use of the medication, according to the American Pain Society's Clinical Practice Guideline on Methadone Safety, published this week in The Journal of Pain.
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HHS calls health care providers to expand use of medications to treat opioid addiction, reduce overdose deaths
A national response to the epidemic of prescription opioid overdose deaths was outlined yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine by leaders of agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Health Officials Call for Better Access to Addiction Treatment – American News Report
Health Officials Call for Better Access to Addiction Treatment – American News Report
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Health Officials Call for Better Access to Addiction Treatment
American News Report “When prescribed and monitored properly, medications such as methadone, buprenorphine, or naltrexone are safe and cost-effective components of opioid addiction treatment,” said lead author Nora Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug … |
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Brockton Mayor Seeks Harsher Penalties For Drug Dealers – WBUR
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Brockton Mayor Seeks Harsher Penalties For Drug Dealers
WBUR Here in the city of Brockton, we have three hospitals, a large neighborhood health center, two methadone clinics, a detox and numerous outpatient counseling centers. And we also have a small independent alternative school, called Independence Academy … |
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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 … |
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Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM
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Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM Would seem to make more sense to substitute medical marijuana for methadone to treat addicts. Methadone can be just as lethal as the drug for which it's being substituted. I saw far more economic and personal damage from alcohol than from pot during my … |
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Zohydro: Ticking Time Bomb? – Daily Beast
Researchers Identify Similarities Between HIV/AIDS and Opioid Addiction …
Researchers identify similarities between HIV/AIDS and opioid addiction …
Increase access to evidence-based treatment, including medications like buprenorphine and methadone. ###. Funding to support the investigators, all of whom are affiliated with The Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights, has been received from The …
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Police arrest five on methamphetamine charges
SIU determined that all suspects were allegedly smoking methamphetamine when officers arrived the report said. After searching Gordy's car, police found another smoking device as well as methadone pills for which he did not have a prescription for.
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Dosage Errors May Have Tilted Clinical Heroin Trial, BC Court Hears
Dosage errors may have tilted clinical heroin trial, BC court hears
Last fall, Health Canada authorized applications for 21 of the participants – severe heroin addicts who have failed numerous times at conventional treatments such as methadone – to receive three-month supplies of diacetylmorphine (prescription heroin …
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Mother Charged With Murder In 2013 Infant Methadone Death
Methadone is a synthetic opiate which is used in medical settings to help treat patients with opiate addictions. 28-year-old Charissa Ranee Bailey of Long Beach, the mother of the deceased infant, was arrested Friday, March 21. After homicide …
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Modern-day addicts defy the 'junkie' stereotype
FALL RIVER — The face of opioid addiction is no longer the disheveled, down-and-out jobless heroin addict on the street corner. … “We have an epidemic of opiate abuse in Massachusetts, so we will treat it like the public health crisis it is …
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Hoquiam Drug Treatment Clinic to Open Mid-April
Hoquiam drug treatment clinic to open mid-April
Patients seeking treatment for opioid addiction will soon have another option, with Evergreen Treatment Services opening a clinic in downtown Hoquiam.
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