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Grieving Mother’s Call for Stricter Controls on Drugs – NW Evening Mail
Drug Methadone: Grieving mother’s call for stricter controls on drugs – NW Evening Mail
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Grieving mother's call for stricter controls on drugs
NW Evening Mail Mrs Alderton contacted the Evening Mail after a large quantity of medication, including methadone, was lost in Lesh Lane last week. She said she was “horrified” when she heard that such dangerous drugs could be misplaced. “It shouldn't be out there for … |
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Drug Methadone: State fights prescription drug abuse with DPS database – LubbockOnline.com
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State fights prescription drug abuse with DPS database
LubbockOnline.com The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says overdose deaths from prescription painkillers such as hydrocodone, methadone and oxycodone have skyrocketed in the last 10 years. Some estimate that deaths from prescription drug overdoses exceed … |
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Drug Methadone: Mother admits putting methadone in son’s cordial – ABC Online
State Fights Prescription Drug Abuse With DPS Database – LubbockOnline.com
Drug Abuse Methadone: State fights prescription drug abuse with DPS database – LubbockOnline.com
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State fights prescription drug abuse with DPS database
LubbockOnline.com The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says overdose deaths from prescription painkillers such as hydrocodone, methadone and oxycodone have skyrocketed in the last 10 years. Posted: August 5, 2012 – 3:15pm … In Dallas County, 14.5 percent of … Texas fights prescription drug abuse with e-data |
Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News
Drug Abuse Methadone: Infant addiction and withdrawal are major concerns, new study finds – Deseret News
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Infant addiction and withdrawal are major concerns, new study finds
Deseret News In this Friday, April 27, 2012, photo, Aileen Dannelley speaks during an interview, at the Pilsen Wellness Center where she undergoes treatment and counseling for drug abuse, in Chicago. Dannelley's one month old daughter Savannah is being treated with … |
Drug Abuse Methadone: Pain Clinic Owner Set for Sentencing in Drug Case – Sacramento Bee
Drug Abuse Methadone: Pain clinic owner set for sentencing in drug case – Sacramento Bee
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Pain clinic owner set for sentencing in drug case
Sacramento Bee … clinics of conspiring with several of his employees to prescribe methadone and oxycodone to bogus patients who were working with drug dealers to distribute the medications in the Appalachian region of Kentucky, where prescription drug abuse is rampant. |
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Pain clinic owner sentenced to 15 years – San Francisco Chronicle
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Pain clinic owner sentenced to 15 years
San Francisco Chronicle (AP) — A Louisiana businessman convicted of distributing oxycodone and methadone pills in eastern Kentucky by using clinics to prescribe the drugs to bogus patients was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Gregory Van … |
Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News
Drug Abuse Methadone: Overdose deaths by heroin addiction treatment Methadone still high but may … – LubbockOnline.com
Drug Abuse Methadone: Local Drug-Abuse Prevention Program Gets Timely Global Help
Drug Abuse Methadone: Local drug-abuse prevention program gets timely global help
The Impact Quincy program will share a new Education Development Center grant with a western Massachusetts coalition. A rise in painkiller overdoses will be the first target
Drug Abuse Methadone – Yahoo! News Search Results
Drug Abuse Methadone: Rise in prescription drug abuse prompts emergency room visits, deaths
Prescription drug abuse increased 75 percent from 2002 to 2010, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control…
Drug Abuse Methadone – Yahoo! News Search Results
Drug Abuse Methadone: Udall Participates in Senate Hearing on Prescription Drug Abuse
Sen. Tom Udall is participating today in a hearing on the sometimes devastating effects of prescription drug abuse – a major problem in New Mexico. New Mexico has the highest… Read more »
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Methadone: A Major Driver of Prescription Painkiller Overdose Deaths – TIME
Drug Methadone: Methadone: A Major Driver of Prescription Painkiller Overdose Deaths – TIME
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Methadone: A Major Driver of Prescription Painkiller Overdose Deaths
TIME Methadone accounts for nearly 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdose deaths in the U.S., even though only 2% of prescriptions for opioid painkillers are for this drug, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Methadone tied to one-third of prescription-drug deaths Methadone cited in 30 percent of painkiller deaths: CDC Methadone deaths still high but may have peaked |
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Drug Methadone: Many Fatal Overdoses Linked to Methadone – New York Times (blog)
Drug Abuse Methadone: Rise in Prescription Drug Abuse Prompts Emergency Room Visits, Deaths – Deseret News
Drug Abuse Methadone: Rise in prescription drug abuse prompts emergency room visits, deaths – Deseret News
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Rise in prescription drug abuse prompts emergency room visits, deaths
Deseret News Doctors started prescribing methadone, which is best known for its use in addiction treatment, as a pain killer in the late 1990s after drug addicts figured out a way to get around Oxycontin's time-release mechanism by crushing and snorting. methadone … |
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Methadone: A Major Driver of Prescription Painkiller Overdose Deaths – TIME
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Methadone: A Major Driver of Prescription Painkiller Overdose Deaths
TIME So, in tandem, rates of nonmedical use of methadone and fatal overdoses have risen; the drugs involved in these cases are typically diverted from pain treatment, not from addiction treatment programs. So why is methadone so much more deadly when used … Methadone deaths still high but may have peaked Methadone for Pain Relief Leading Cause of Fatal Overdoses: CDC |