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Drug Methadone: Seattle Times Methadone Investigation Wins Pulitzer Prize – the Seattle Times

Drug Methadone: Seattle Times methadone investigation wins Pulitzer Prize – The Seattle Times


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Seattle Times methadone investigation wins Pulitzer Prize
The Seattle Times
In The Times' three-part series titled "Methadone and the Politics of Pain," Berens and Armstrong revealed that between 2003 and 2011, at least 2173 people died in Washington state after accidentally overdosing on methadone, which for eight years was
Seattle Times, Stranger win PulitzersSeattle Post Intelligencer
Exposé of police spying on Muslim groups shares investigative Pulitzermsnbc.com (blog)
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Drug Methadone: Odd couple still learning to co-exist – Ottawa Citizen

Odd couple still learning to co-exist
Ottawa Citizen
David Reevely looks in on how the living arrangement is working out By David Reevely, Ottawa Citizen April 16, 2012 Outside the methadone clinic on Somerset Street, a sweet old lady and a recovering drug addict share a bench in the spring sun.

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Wash. Bill Seeks Unused Prescription Collection – the Seattle Times

Drug Methadone: Wash. bill seeks unused prescription collection – The Seattle Times

Wash. bill seeks unused prescription collection
The Seattle Times
By PHUONG LE Associated Press The state kills thousands by requiring methadone and its response is to blame the users… (February 7, 2012, by wadical weft) MORE Hoping to stem what they say is a rising tide of prescription drug abuse and accidental

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Drug Methadone: Bristol man arrested on drug charges – Providence Eyewitness News


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Bristol man arrested on drug charges
Providence Eyewitness News
Upon searching his Peckham Place home, they discovered 50 grams of cocaine, oxycodone, methadone, illegal steroids, and other prescription drugs. Authorities also seized scales, computers, and $ 672 in cash from the home. The cocaine has an estimated
Bristol police investigation nets slew of drugs, suspected dealerEastBayRI.com

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State Plans Emergency Warning on Risks of Methadone – the Seattle Times

Alcoholism Methadone: State plans emergency warning on risks of methadone – The Seattle Times

State plans emergency warning on risks of methadone
The Seattle Times
(See the list of cases online at seattletimes.com/methadone.) And this was using a conservative sift, excluding cases where the deceased had so much as a history of alcoholism. Sen. Cheryl Pflug, R-Maple Valley, told Franklin that she was troubled even

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The Politics of Pain: Series Explores Prescription Pain Medication – Seattle Times

Drug Methadone: The politics of pain: series explores prescription pain medication – Seattle Times
I would suggest that Jeff Thompson and the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee review this in light of the committee’s utter hubris and shameful sins of omission that have led to numerous needless deaths from methadone. [“State pushes drug …
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Drug Methadone: Monterey drug death case may be first of its kind in state – Monterey County Herald
The Supreme Court, however, ruled some years ago that providing drugs to someone isn’t an inherently dangerous act. In her ruling Friday afternoon, Culver said Martinez knew the dangers of not properly pacing methadone ingestion because he took …
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Drug Methadone: Pain and politics series exposes troubled system – Seattle Times
I have to ask — when Washington state, despite dire warnings, made methadone the preferred drug for Medicare chronic-pain patients, and as the death rate climbs, are not budget zealots showing the same values as the Nazis who viewed the …
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Drug Methadone: FDA Strips Critic of Voting Rights – Counter Punch
But the ink was barely dry on the letter before the FDA announced that Seroquel “should be avoided” in combination with at least 12 other medicines including heart rhythm drugs, synthetic opioids like methadone, antibiotics, anti-infectives …
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State Pushes Drug That Saves Money, Costs Lives – the Seattle Times

Drug Abuse Methadone: State pushes drug that saves money, costs lives – The Seattle Times


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State pushes drug that saves money, costs lives
The Seattle Times
One committee member seemed to think Washington had nothing to worry about, saying: "I know with methadone we don't really encourage it as a preferred drug." Citing "issues" with doctors not knowing how to use methadone, she claimed physicians were
Methadone deaths increasing in Yakima CountyYakima Herald-Republic

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Drug Abuse Methadone: How we linked methadone deaths to poverty – The Seattle Times

How we linked methadone deaths to poverty
The Seattle Times
We used codes 96502 and E8501 to identify methadone cases. To track Washington's rising use of methadone, we relied on a database from the US Drug Enforcement Administration called Automation of Reports and Consolidate Orders System (ARCOS).

Methadone Treatment Seattle: Swearing, Spitting, Choking: ER Nurses Endure This and More

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Methadone Treatment Seattle: Swearing, spitting, choking: ER nurses endure this and more
Jeaux Rinehart was staffing a Seattle emergency room when a patient in a triage room, upset that he couldn't get methadone, pulled a billy club out of a backpack and beat Rinehart in the back of the head and across the face, breaking his cheekbone. …
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Methadone Treatment Seattle: Gene Wilson Named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for The
“The company is involved in many life-changing treatments, and I am honored to be a part of their remarkable impact on the quality of life of individuals and their families who are dealing with drug and alcohol addiction. …
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