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Drug Methadone: Number of Babies Born Addicted to Pain Pills Rising in Tampa Bay – Tbo.com

Drug Methadone: Number of babies born addicted to pain pills rising in Tampa Bay – Tbo.com

Number of babies born addicted to pain pills rising in Tampa Bay
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The expecting mothers, some of whom are addicts or need medication for chronic pain, are usually prescribed methadone. "They still have pain. You have to treat them," Hechtman said. "It's fairly safe to be on methadone while pregnant.

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Drug Methadone: Soon, drug driving test to be brought to your fingertips! – DailyIndia.com


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Soon, drug driving test to be brought to your fingertips!
DailyIndia.com
The technique was first used to detect nicotine, but now works on a range of drugs, including cocaine, methadone and cannabis. The new device could detect nanograms of metabolites in minutes, said Paul Yates from Intelligent Fingerprinting.
Drug driving test at your fingertipsNew Scientist

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Former Florida Doctor Gets Four Years in Eastern Kentucky Pills Case

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Methadone Drug Abuse: Former Florida doctor gets four years in Eastern Kentucky pills case
A former South Florida doctor who helped funnel 25,000 pain pills into Eastern Kentucky has been sen
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Kentucky Fights Back on Pills, Gaining Ground in Prescription-Drug Abuse War – Louisville Courier-Journal

Drug Abuse Methadone: Kentucky fights back on pills, gaining ground in prescription-drug abuse war – Louisville Courier-Journal

Kentucky fights back on pills, gaining ground in prescription-drug abuse war
Louisville Courier-Journal
Law enforcement says new drug becoming popular wit… Recovering addict Brittany Medley shares her story. (By Michael Clevenger, The Courier-Journal) June 8, 2011 / cj Kentucky is slowly gaining ground in its war on prescription-drug abuse,
Doctors drug-testing patients to weed out abuseDanbury News Times

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Heroin Becomes Backup to Pills

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Drug Methadone: Heroin becomes backup to pills
Recent interdiction seizures indicate that Middle Tennessee has become a prime target for Mexican heroin traffickers, hoping to increase their profits by moving into middle-class surburbs.
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Drug Methadone: Opioids cause of 50,000 U.S. ER visits
SALT LAKE CITY, June 14 (UPI) — Opioids — pain-relief drugs like methadone, morphine and oxycodone — were responsible for nearly 50,000 U.S. emergency room visits in 2006, researchers say.
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Drug Methadone: Africa: ‘War On Drugs’ Blowback Effects
Vast expenditures on criminalization and repressive measures directed at producers, traffickers and consumers of illegal drugs have clearly failed to effectively curtail supply or consumption. [at the same time] the implementation of the war on drugs has generated widespread negative consequences for societies in producer, transit and consumer countries, [including] the growth of a ‘huge …
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