Posts Tagged ‘prescription drug’
Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM
Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM
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Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM Methadone entered the public consciousness in the 1950s when American doctors began using it to treat heroin addiction. Today, about 500,000 people are participating in methadone treatment programs nationwide, including several hundred locally. |
Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News
My Neighbor, The Methadone Clinic: Part III – Brooklyn Reader
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My Neighbor, The Methadone Clinic: Part III
Brooklyn Reader Many people see drug users as underachievers: burnouts of society who turned to substances in order to occupy their time. While this may be true for a percentage of addicts, none of the patients I met with at the START Drug Rehab Treatment Center in … |
Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News
It takes more than methadone to treat addiction – Boston Globe
Boston’s Only Public Methadone Clinic May Shut – Boston Globe
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe They have been to detox probably 50 to 100 times, they always relapse, and they have to find something.” Methadone is a synthetic narcotic that has been used for decades to reduce the craving for opiates, such as heroin, and their withdrawal symptoms. |
At 21, recovering heroin addict starts over – News Sentinel
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At 21, recovering heroin addict starts over
News Sentinel Lewis completed rehab and started taking methadone. But after six months, he says, he realized he'd replaced one addiction with another, so he entered a detox program. He has been sober since Oct. 12. He's severed all connections with drug-using … |
Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures – The Intelligencer
Boston’s Only Public Methadone Clinic May Shut – Boston Globe
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe They have been to detox probably 50 to 100 times, they always relapse, and they have to find something.” Methadone is a synthetic narcotic that has been used for decades to reduce the craving for opiates, such as heroin, and their withdrawal symptoms. |
At 21, recovering heroin addict starts over – News Sentinel
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At 21, recovering heroin addict starts over
News Sentinel Lewis completed rehab and started taking methadone. But after six months, he says, he realized he'd replaced one addiction with another, so he entered a detox program. He has been sober since Oct. 12. He's severed all connections with drug-using … Cody's story: At 21, recovering heroin addict starts over |
Medicines Killing Hundreds
Medicines killing hundreds
Prescription drugs caused or contributed to the deaths of 310 of the 374 people to die in Victoria from drug overdoses last year – prompting calls for greater controls on medication.
Drug Methadone – Yahoo News Search Results
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Tackling Drug Abuse One Generation at a Time – Irish Times
Tackling drug abuse one generation at a time – Irish Times
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Tackling drug abuse one generation at a time
Irish Times She started drinking at 15, got into heroin at 17 and, although she stopped smoking it during her first two pregnancies, she wasn't stabilised on methadone until her eldest child was three and she had a second baby to care for. However, unlike many of … |
Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News
STEPHENSON: Nova Scotia doctors need to confront prescription drug abuse – TheChronicleHerald.ca
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STEPHENSON: Nova Scotia doctors need to confront prescription drug abuse
TheChronicleHerald.ca It has a stellar prescription drug monitoring program and the college developed a methadone treatment handbook in 2012 that has become “the gold standard” in assisting physicians to treat patients with addictions. The new pre-screening policy announced … |
Boston’s Only Public Methadone Clinic May Shut – Boston Globe
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe They have been to detox probably 50 to 100 times, they always relapse, and they have to find something.” Methadone is a synthetic narcotic that has been used for decades to reduce the craving for opiates, such as heroin, and their withdrawal symptoms. |
Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures – The Intelligencer
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Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures
The Intelligencer … is standard medical protocols believe the risk of danger to the woman and fetus is too great. Instead, they are placed in a methadone replacement program at an outside state-certified treatment center. … In her third day of heroin detox in the … |
Why drug users should be decriminalised – Irish Times