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Methadone Detox: Insight: In Greek crisis, HIV gains ground
ATHENS (Reuters) – ‘Contagion’ is the label financial markets use for the economic spread of the Greek crisis. For hundreds of people in an increasingly chaotic society, the word has a deadlier meaning.
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Methadone Detox: 19. Insight – In Greek crisis, HIV gains ground
ATHENS (Reuters) – ‘Contagion’ is the label financial markets use for the economic spread of the Greek crisis. For hundreds of people in an increasingly chaotic society, the word has a deadlier meaning.
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Methadone Detox: The Conrad Murray Verdict: Is It an Indictment of Modern Medicine?
Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty on Monday of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. With overdose deaths tripling in the past decade, should Murray’s conviction be a lesson to other doctors? Not really
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Methadone Detox: 16. Insight – In Greek crisis, HIV gains ground
ATHENS (Reuters) – ‘Contagion’ is the label financial markets use for the economic spread of the Greek crisis. For hundreds of people in an increasingly chaotic society, the word has a deadlier meaning.
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Methadone Detox: Is Murray’s Verdict in Jackson’s Death an Indictment of Modern Medicine?
Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty on Monday of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. With overdose deaths tripling in the past decade, should Murray’s conviction be a lesson to other doctors? Not really. Drawing larger conclusions about … Continue reading ?
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Methadone Clinics: Methadone clinic site OK’d
Cecil County Director of Permits and Inspections Patrick Conway said Acorn Investments, the owner of the former Rose’s Diner, pictured above, was issued a change of use permit July 21 to convert the interior of the 2,300-square-foot space into four counseling rooms, two waiting areas, a meeting room, offices and a reception area.
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Methadone Clinics: Painkiller fatality triples in decade
NEW YORK (AP) — The number of overdose deaths from powerful painkillers more than tripled over a decade, the government reported Tuesday — a trend that a United States health official called an epidemic, but one that can be stopped. Prescription painkillers such as OxyContin, Vicodin and methadone led to the deaths of almost 15,000 people in 2008, including actor Heath Ledger. That’s more than …
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Methadone Clinics: Painkiller-overdose deaths have tripled in a decade
Prescription painkillers such as OxyContin, Vicodin and methadone led to the deaths of almost 15,000 people in 2008
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Drug Abuse Methadone: CDC: Fatal overdoses from painkillers triple in decade; 1 in 20 Americans report abuse
NEW YORK — The number of overdose deaths from powerful painkillers more than tripled over a decade, the government reported Tuesday — a trend the nation’s top health official called an epidemic, but one that can be stopped. Prescription painkillers such as OxyContin, Vicodin and methadone led to the deaths of almost 15,000 people in 2008, including actor Heath Ledger. That’s more than three …
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Deaths from painkiller overdose surge to record
(Reuters) – Nearly 15,000 Americans died from an overdose of prescription painkillers in 2008, a record rate that has outstripped fatalities from illegal drugs like cocaine and heroin combined, health officials said on Tuesday.
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Parties come together on Rx drug abuse – Citizen
In Laconia in 2007, eight people died when they abused methadone, a powerful heroin substitute and prescription pain-relief drug. In 2011, there is a new killer in the city, fentanyl, which is believed to be responsible for three recent overdose deaths.
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Database eyed to curb drug abuse – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Prescription drug abuse has soared in the past five years … Only 13 were tied to heroin or methadone, the top killers in the early 2000s. � In the last three years, more than 560 people were treated in Westmoreland hospitals for drug overdoses …
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Salvation or a slippery slope? – Calgary Herald
They gave him methadone. Methadone is a synthetic opioid … risk of addiction in patients with no history of substance abuse. Then came slow-release versions of oxycodone and similar drugs. Drug companies that glossed over the potential risks while …
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Drug Methadone: Feds fail to use effective drug treatment plans in prison
Despite 20 years of scientific evidence showing that drug treatment programs work, the feds fail to offer enough of them to prisoners, according to a new study. Currently 7.1 million adults–over 2 percent of the population–in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of them suffer from some kind of addiction — heroin , alcohol , crack , crystal meth , you name it–but only 20 …
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Drug Methadone: New methadone centers to open in Athens
Twelve new methadone centers are due to open at hospitals around Attica on Friday with the aim of gradually reducing the backlog of 3,500 drug addicts who are waiting for assistance.
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Drug Methadone: Drug dealer sentenced to 50 years
The man police connected with three overdose deaths was sentenced to 50 years in prison Thursday.
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