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Report: Opiate Abuse May Be Up, but Overdose Deaths Are Flat in Vermont – Bennington Banner

Report: Opiate abuse may be up, but overdose deaths are flat in Vermont – Bennington Banner

Report: Opiate abuse may be up, but overdose deaths are flat in Vermont
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Peter Shumlin highlighted the opiate addiction crisis in Vermont in his State of the State address, but statistics show no significant rise in accidental drug overdose deaths from opiates over the past eight years, according to a new Health Department

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Suboxone, Methadone Alternative, Gets Police Chief’s OK – CBC.ca

Suboxone, methadone alternative, gets police chief’s OK – CBC.ca

Suboxone, methadone alternative, gets police chief's OK
CBC.ca
Some addictions specialists continue to lobby the Nova Scotia government to approve a drug other than methadone for broader use, a move the Kentville police chief says would make the streets safer. Kentville Police Chief Mark Mander says Suboxone, 

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Report: Opiate abuse may be up, but overdose deaths are flat in Vermont – Brattleboro Reformer

Report: Opiate abuse may be up, but overdose deaths are flat in Vermont
Brattleboro Reformer
Peter Shumlin highlighted the opiate addiction crisis in Vermont in his State of the State address, but statistics show no significant rise in accidental drug overdose deaths from opiates over the past eight years, according to a new Health Department

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Heroin: New England's Unlikely Epidemic

Heroin: New England's Unlikely Epidemic
In quaint New England towns, where white-spired churches dot a landscape of rolling farmland and leafy forests, local residents and government officials are alarmed over a deadly scourge more often linked to gritty urban ghettos: heroin addiction. In January, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin devoted his entire State of the State message to heroin, calling it "a crisis bubbling just beneath the surface …
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Daily Round-Up: Inslee Seeks $200 Million for K-12, State Senate Talks Teacher

Daily round-up: Inslee seeks 0 million for K-12, state senate talks teacher
Christie wants to extend school calendar, lengthen school day (The Star-Ledger): Bridges weren't the only topic in New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's State of the State address on Wednesday. He also proposed extending the school calendar and … His …
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Specific Actions on Special Social Problems
The violation of the rights of labor immigrants and of workers, deficiencies in welfare policies and their implementation means that the deficiencies to which the social workers call attention include such things as the lack of social welfare services …
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Brooklyn Deadliest Borough for Overdoses

Brooklyn deadliest borough for overdoses
Brooklyn had the greatest number of fatal drug overdoses from 2010 to 2012, city Health Department data shows. All told, there were 541 drug deaths in 2010, 630 in 2011 and 730 in 2012, records show.
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With drug crackdown, LePage favoring enforcement over treatment
The governor wants more drug officers, judges and prosecutors but remains silent on prevention and treatment in his State of the State speech.
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Methadone overdose killed Stony Plain foster boy, 13
A 13-year-old boy in provincial care overdosed on methadone during a sleepover at a friend’s house in 2010, a fatality inquiry report revealed Wednesday.
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Brown was selling an "extremely destructive" drug as a lucrative business rather than trying to support a drug addiction, said federal prosecutor Michael Robb during a prior court appearance. Brown had overcome a drug addiction and was in the methadone 

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Simmons: Heroin Happy Meals point to larger problem – Washington Times

Simmons: Heroin Happy Meals point to larger problem
Washington Times
8 to be precise, the governor of Vermont used his State of the State address to underscore a problem many of us do not think about: heroin addiction. This particular substance abuse State health officials began noticing a disturbing trend in the

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After 40 Years, New Orleans Will Pick A New Coroner – WWNO