Posts Tagged ‘substance abuse’

LePage’s Drug-Battle Plan Pared Down, Gets Bipartisan Backing – Press Herald

LePage’s drug-battle plan pared down, gets bipartisan backing – Press Herald


Press Herald

LePage's drug-battle plan pared down, gets bipartisan backing
Press Herald
Earlier this year, 19,000 recipients classified as “childless adults” were removed from the program, including hundreds of beneficiaries who used the health care program for methadone to treat heroin addiction. The cut was proposed by LePage, who has

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Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

The Invisible Monster: Heroin Invades Our Community – Social Justice Solutions


Social Justice Solutions

The Invisible Monster: Heroin Invades Our Community
Social Justice Solutions
Harm reduction strategies include substance abuse treatment and opiate replacement therapy such as Suboxone or methadone. Another crucial piece of harm reduction is peer administration of the heroin overdose antidote Naloxone (Narcan), which helps …

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Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

Russia bans methadone in Crimea – ITAR-TASS

Super Mom Let Life Get Away – LimaOhio.com

Super Mom let life get away – LimaOhio.com

Super Mom let life get away
LimaOhio.com
Becky tried to self-detox herself from the medications, but found it made her too sick. … Becky said she promised her family that she'd cut back on her pills, but found it was too difficult since she was “super addicted” to the methadone and Vicodine

Methadone Detox – Google News

WWMT Newschannel 3 :: Search Results – WWMT-TV


WWMT-TV

WWMT Newschannel 3 :: Search Results
WWMT-TV
They are for-profit businesses, and making money because while other things are being cut in Michigan, money for methadone therapy for drug addiction keeps increasing. Every morning before dawn, they pull into the parking lot and line up outside the

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Methadone Detox – Google News

Nursing strike staffing plan in works – TheChronicleHerald.ca

LePage’s Drug-Battle Plan Pared Down, Gets Bipartisan Backing – Press Herald

LePage’s drug-battle plan pared down, gets bipartisan backing – Press Herald


Press Herald

LePage's drug-battle plan pared down, gets bipartisan backing
Press Herald
In February, the state imposed a two-year limit on MaineCare payments to people who are being treated for opiate addiction with suboxone and methadone, with certain exceptions. About 12,000 Mainers had suboxone prescriptions in 2010, according to the …

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Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

The Invisible Monster: Heroin Invades Our Community – Social Justice Solutions


Social Justice Solutions

The Invisible Monster: Heroin Invades Our Community
Social Justice Solutions
Harm reduction strategies include substance abuse treatment and opiate replacement therapy such as Suboxone or methadone. Another crucial piece of harm reduction is peer administration of the heroin overdose antidote Naloxone (Narcan), which helps …

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Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

Calls for a ceasefire in the war on drugs – IRINnews.org

Officials: Time for a Bennington Drug Treatment Center or Methadone Clinic – Brattleboro Reformer

Officials: Time for a Bennington drug treatment center or methadone clinic – Brattleboro Reformer

Officials: Time for a Bennington drug treatment center or methadone clinic
Brattleboro Reformer
Kristyn Harrington, assistant principal and school-based clinician at Mount Anthony Union High School, speaks on the panel, during a discussion held on Friday at the Bennington Fire Facility to discuss the heroin problem in Bennington. (Holly

Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

Methadone: ‘Liquid handcuffs’ – Sunday Star Times


Sunday Star Times

Methadone: 'Liquid handcuffs'
Sunday Star Times
If methadone was combined with commonly abused drugs, including alcohol, it could be fatal and continuing to prescribe the treatment "when someone is knowingly using this dangerous combination is very high risk", she said. Eight people died while on

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Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

OC pain doctor caused deaths of three patients, authorities allege – Los Angeles Times

Time for a Local Drug Treatment Center or Methadone Clinic, Say Some Officials – Bennington Banner

Time for a local drug treatment center or methadone clinic, say some officials – Bennington Banner

Time for a local drug treatment center or methadone clinic, say some officials
Bennington Banner
The event was planned by Rutland Herald Reporter Patrick McArdle as a way of letting local leaders from the town, police, schools, and health care system respond to an article in the New York Times featuring heroin addiction in town. The article

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Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

OC pain doctor caused deaths of three patients, authorities allege – Los Angeles Times

OC pain doctor caused deaths of three patients, authorities allege
Los Angeles Times
In earlier interviews with The Times, Vu portrayed himself a conscientious and caring physician who treated "very, very difficult patients" with chronic pain sometimes complicated by substance abuse and depression, anxiety or other mental illness

Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

Time for a Local Drug Treatment Center or Methadone Clinic, Say Some Officials – Bennington Banner

Time for a local drug treatment center or methadone clinic, say some officials – Bennington Banner

Time for a local drug treatment center or methadone clinic, say some officials
Bennington Banner
The event was planned by Rutland Herald Reporter Patrick McArdle as a way of letting local leaders from the town, police, schools, and health care system respond to an article in the New York Times featuring heroin addiction in town. The article

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Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News

Methadone: ‘Liquid handcuffs’ – Sunday Star Times


Sunday Star Times

Methadone: 'Liquid handcuffs'
Sunday Star Times
If methadone was combined with commonly abused drugs, including alcohol, it could be fatal and continuing to prescribe the treatment "when someone is knowingly using this dangerous combination is very high risk", she said. Eight people died while on

and more »

Drug Abuse Methadone – Google News