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Drs. Gary Franklin and Jeff Thompson: Washington State Is Combating Opioid Abuse

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Methadone Treatment Guidelines: Drs. Gary Franklin and Jeff Thompson: Washington State is Combating Opioid Abuse
Gary Franklin, MD, medical director for the Department of Labor and Industries, and Jeff Thompson, MD, medical director for the Health Care Authority, wrote in a Seattle Times editorial that although the methadone deaths are increasing in Washington …
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Methadone Treatment Guidelines: Drug monitoring system used only sparingly
Nationally, more than 40 people die each day from overdoses involving narcotic pain relievers like hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and oxymorphone, according to a report released in November from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. …
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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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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
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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).

Judge: State Has Duty of Care to Prisoners

Alcoholism Methadone: Judge: State has duty of care to prisoners
A DISTRICT Court judge has described as tragic, frightening and embarrassing the state’s failure to provide drug treatment facilities for defendants outside the prison system.
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Budget Cuts Could Close Treatment Centers Across State – KXLY

Methadone Detox: Budget Cuts Could Close Treatment Centers Across State – KXLY
methadone clinics and detox facilities across the state. Governor Chris Gregoire called for every state department to show her what a 10-percent cut to the budget would look like, and DSHS Secretary Susan Dreyfus that in their proposed budget …
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Methadone Detox: Addicts seeking helpfor drug abuse on rise – Kennebec Journal
Detox, the process of breaking the body’s acute dependence … “We get a lot of women who come in here pretty damaged from having to do that,” said Blake. Methadone clinics The clinic that Blake supervises is one of eight in the state that …
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Methadone Detox: Treatment works for pill addicts, but access a problem – Morning Sentinel
Detox, the process of breaking the body’s acute dependence … The clinic that Blake supervises is one of eight in the state that provide methadone to about 4,500 addicts statewide. Its 200 patients start filing into the nondescript Calais …
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State Medical Board Restricts License of Dr. Jeffrey Solinas

Methadone Addictive in the News

Methadone Addictive: State medical board restricts license of Dr. Jeffrey Solinas
includes methadone, morphine and oxycodone. The prohibition also applies to Schedule III controlled substances, which includes amphetamines and some barbiturates, with an exception that Solinas may prescribe buprenorphine to treat opiate addiction.
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Methadone Addictive: Corrections: October 12
An article on Oct. 4 about efforts to develop vaccines against drug addiction misstated the function of Suboxone and methadone, anti-opiates that are used to treat heroin addiction. While anti-opiates induce a mild high in many patients,
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