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Addiction Experts Worry About Effect of Dropping Hundreds of Addicted Mainers … – Bangor Daily News
Addiction experts worry about effect of dropping hundreds of addicted Mainers … – Bangor Daily News
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Addiction experts worry about effect of dropping hundreds of addicted Mainers …
Bangor Daily News At the end of 2013, hundreds of recovering drug addicts lost their MaineCare coverage, in many cases limiting or ending their ability to get methadone treatment. From left, Lindey Saunders, 35, of Ellsworth; Brandi Harriman, 28, of Glenburn and Jacob … |
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‘An epidemic of heroin’: Hoffman is a new face of growing problem – NBCNews.com
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'An epidemic of heroin': Hoffman is a new face of growing problem
NBCNews.com The number of heroin users in the U.S. nearly doubled in five years, to 669,000 in 2012 from 373,000 in 2007, according to statistics from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The number who abused or grew dependent on heroin … Philip Seymour Hoffman Didn't Have to Die And I guess that I just don't know |
Our View: Addiction Puts Infants at Risk – Monroe News Star
Our view: Addiction puts infants at risk – Monroe News Star
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Our view: Addiction puts infants at risk
Monroe News Star St. Francis Medical Center neonatologist Dr. Carmen Payne sees the problem as well, saying the majority of drug-addicted babies delivered at St. Francis are born addicted to marijuana, methadone or prescription drugs. “This is a growing issue in our … |
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Methadone Clinic to Open This Week – Eagle-Tribune
Methadone clinic to open this week – Eagle-Tribune
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Methadone clinic to open this week
Eagle-Tribune He said he learned only after granting the building permit that Spectrum planned to use the building as a clinic for “health care services including drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation.” The Plaistow Road property is in a commercial highway zone in … |
Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News
Our view: Addiction puts infants at risk – Monroe News Star
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Our view: Addiction puts infants at risk
Monroe News Star St. Francis Medical Center neonatologist Dr. Carmen Payne sees the problem as well, saying the majority of drug-addicted babies delivered at St. Francis are born addicted to marijuana, methadone or prescription drugs. “This is a growing issue in our … |
Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News
Success of Maine veterans court inspires plan to expand – Press Herald
Prescription Drugs Lead to Growing Problem of Infant Addiction
Prescription drugs lead to growing problem of infant addiction
From 2000 to 2010 there was a fivefold increase in the number of pregnant women who used or abused opiates, with these mothers accounting for 5.6 out of 1,000 hospital births annually, according to the study. “That boils … “This is a growing issue in …
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Choking to death: should we stop sending women to prison?
David and Gemma spent a month in hospital together following complications she believes could have been caused by prison nurses reducing her methadone dose during pregnancy. Two officers – men and women – stood guard beside her hospital bed 24 hours a …
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Police Warning About Stolen Methadone – CHCH News
Police warning about stolen methadone – CHCH News
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Police warning about stolen methadone
CHCH News Investigators say the suspect walked behind the pharmacy counter at Marchese Health Care and began filling a large pillow case with prescription drugs. Methadone — one of the medications stolen — can be fatal if consumed in a large quantity. Police … |
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Cowlitz County Overdose Fatality Rate Remains Among State’s Highest – Longview Daily News
Cowlitz County overdose fatality rate remains among state’s highest – Longview Daily News
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Cowlitz County overdose fatality rate remains among state's highest
Longview Daily News Cowlitz County has the state's second-highest rate of deaths due to heroin or prescription drug abuse, at 17.1 deaths per 100,000 people between 2010 and 2012, the state Department of Health reported this week. The local rate is more than double the … |
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‘Bad heroin’ hits NH communities hard – The Daily News of Newburyport
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'Bad heroin' hits NH communities hard
The Daily News of Newburyport But shortly after that, the drug world shifted gears, transitioning to the illegal use of prescription drugs, like methadone, oxycodone, diazepam, fentanyl and morphine, and by those who would never have thought of using heroin. In Seabrook … |