Posts Tagged ‘Opioid addicts’

Drug Methadone: An Alternative to Methadone – Herald Scotland

Drug Methadone: An alternative to methadone – Herald Scotland

An alternative to methadone
Herald Scotland
For decades the cornerstone of drug abuse treatment has been the provision of methadone on a long-term basis to addicts. That policy has been tenaciously adhered to even in the face of the year-on-year increase in the number of addicts dying, and in

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Drug Methadone: Revealed: Feeding addict prisoners heroin substitute methadone is costing … – Scottish Daily Record

Revealed: Feeding addict prisoners heroin substitute methadone is costing
Scottish Daily Record
The Scottish Government said: “Substitute prescribing such as methadone is one of a number of methods of drug treatment in a package of care, treatment and recovery that can be offered to individuals – including prisoners – to help them recover from 

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Drug Methadone: Proposed move rejected, methadone clinic takes city to court – The Sun

Drug Baby Given Morphine, Inquest Hears

Drug Methadone: Drug baby given morphine, inquest hears
A baby who died while in Child Youth and Family care was born to a mother who was taking methadone and the infant had to be given morphine to wean him off the drug, an inquest in Marton has heard. read more
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Drug Methadone: Baby given morphine to wean off methadone, inquest hears
A baby who died while in Child Youth and Family care was born to a mother who was taking methadone and the infant had to be given morphine to wean him off the drug, an inquest in Marton has heard.Ricco Rain Chadfield-Spittal died…
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Drug Methadone: Methadone program short resources, says doctor
The medical director of P.E.I.’s methadone program says it needs more resources, so more opioid addicts can get help.
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Drug Methadone: Edmonton methadone clinic finds quick fix
Alberta Health Services has temporarily fixed a staffing problem at Edmonton’s methadone clinic.
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Drug Methadone: Neighborhood Unites Against Methadone Clinic
A proposed methadone clinic has unified the Holmesburg community in opposition. Photo Credit: Sarah Glover
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Drug Baby Given Morphine, Inquest Hears

Drug Methadone: Drug baby given morphine, inquest hears
A baby who died while in Child Youth and Family care was born to a mother who was taking methadone and the infant had to be given morphine to wean him off the drug, an inquest in Marton has heard. read more
Drug Methadone – Yahoo! News Search Results

Drug Methadone: Baby given morphine to wean off methadone, inquest hears
A baby who died while in Child Youth and Family care was born to a mother who was taking methadone and the infant had to be given morphine to wean him off the drug, an inquest in Marton has heard.Ricco Rain Chadfield-Spittal died…
Drug Methadone – Yahoo! News Search Results

Drug Methadone: Methadone program short resources, says doctor
The medical director of P.E.I.’s methadone program says it needs more resources, so more opioid addicts can get help.
Drug Methadone – Yahoo! News Search Results

Revealed: Feeding Addict Prisoners Heroin Substitute Methadone Is Costing … – Scottish Daily Record

Drug Methadone: Revealed: Feeding addict prisoners heroin substitute methadone is costing … – Scottish Daily Record

Revealed: Feeding addict prisoners heroin substitute methadone is costing
Scottish Daily Record
The Scottish Government said: “Substitute prescribing such as methadone is one of a number of methods of drug treatment in a package of care, treatment and recovery that can be offered to individuals – including prisoners – to help them recover from 

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Drug Methadone: Methadone program should be expanded: addictions doctor – The Guardian Charlottetown


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Methadone program should be expanded: addictions doctor
The Guardian Charlottetown
Dr. Don Ling told the Standing Committee on Health and Social Development Tuesday 60 per cent of those on the methadone program end up drug free and back in the workforce, leading productive lives. “Lives that are in the dumpster all of a sudden are 
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Revealed: Feeding Addict Prisoners Heroin Substitute Methadone Is Costing … – Scottish Daily Record

Drug Methadone: Revealed: Feeding addict prisoners heroin substitute methadone is costing … – Scottish Daily Record

Revealed: Feeding addict prisoners heroin substitute methadone is costing
Scottish Daily Record
DRUG addict cons are costing the health service £500,000 a year taking the heroin substitute methadone behind bars. The disclosure comes at a time when the country's health budget faces growing demands on its services. Opposition politicians have 

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Drug Methadone: New Rockland methadone clinic opens next week – Bangor Daily News

New Rockland methadone clinic opens next week
Bangor Daily News
Metro Treatment of Maine, part of Colonial Management LLC of Florida, has sought since the summer of 2011 to open a clinic at the site of the former Turning Tide methadone clinic. Turning Tide closed in 2010, a few weeks after the clinic's owner and a

Revealed: Feeding Addict Prisoners Heroin Substitute Methadone Is Costing … – Scottish Daily Record

Drug Methadone: Revealed: Feeding addict prisoners heroin substitute methadone is costing … – Scottish Daily Record

Revealed: Feeding addict prisoners heroin substitute methadone is costing
Scottish Daily Record
DRUG addict cons are costing the health service £500,000 a year taking the heroin substitute methadone behind bars. The disclosure comes at a time when the country's health budget faces growing demands on its services. Opposition politicians have 

Drug Methadone – Google News

Drug Methadone: New Rockland methadone clinic opens next week – Bangor Daily News

New Rockland methadone clinic opens next week
Bangor Daily News
Metro Treatment of Maine, part of Colonial Management LLC of Florida, has sought since the summer of 2011 to open a clinic at the site of the former Turning Tide methadone clinic. Turning Tide closed in 2010, a few weeks after the clinic's owner and a