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Ex-Clinic Owner Appeals in Pain Pill Case

Ex-clinic owner appeals in pain pill case
A Louisiana businessman convicted of distributing oxycodone and methadone pills in eastern Kentucky will get a chance to argue for his freedom before a federal appeals court.
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Addicted to Profits: Insurance Companies Adjust Coverage of Methadone Clinics

Addicted to Profits: Insurance companies adjust coverage of methadone clinics
With lives at stake, methadone clinics play an integral role in treating opiate addicts. However, the actions of city and state government, insurance companies and private equity firms may impose financial difficulties on patients seeking opiate addiction treatment. Last month, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick declared opiate abuse a public health emergency in Massachusetts, citing potent […]
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Ex-clinic owner appeals in pain pill case
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Louisiana businessman convicted of distributing oxycodone and methadone pills in eastern Kentucky will get a chance to argue for his freedom before a federal appeals court. The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati has set a June 18 hearing date for 48-year-old Michael D. Leman of Slidell, La. A jury in Lexington convicted Leman in 2011 of using medical clinics …
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Finding Treatment for Opiate Addiction Fraught With Challenges

Finding treatment for opiate addiction fraught with challenges
When opiate addiction reaches a crisis point, either through a medical emergency or a drug user's life falling apart, it can be hard knowing where to turn.
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Substance Abuse

Substance abuse
1959) —  Spandau Ballet (1983) The simplest way to understand this is: more is not necessarily better. It’s got to do with our use of prescription drugs – the kinds legally prescribed and procured – the kinds that come from doctors. According to the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug addiction is defined as “a chronic, relapsing disease characterized by compulsive drug seeking and …
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UP CLOSE | a Haven for the Homeless?

UP CLOSE | A Haven for the homeless?
Paul and Kirk Bacon are among the 767 homeless people in New Haven, many of whom count on Chapel on the Green for lunch on Sundays.
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Methadone Safety: New Clinical Practice Guideline From American Pain Society

Methadone safety: New clinical practice guideline from American Pain Society
Improved physician education and patient counseling about methadone safety and ECG monitoring to identify patients at high risk for cardiac problems will lead to safer use of the medication, according to the American Pain Society's Clinical Practice Guideline on Methadone Safety, published this week in The Journal of Pain.
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HHS calls health care providers to expand use of medications to treat opioid addiction, reduce overdose deaths
A national response to the epidemic of prescription opioid overdose deaths was outlined yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine by leaders of agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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