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NC Ordered to Pay $528K in Patient Overdose Death

NC ordered to pay 8K in patient overdose death
North Carolina has been ordered to pay nearly $ 528,000 to the parents of a man given a lethal overdose of methadone at a government-run drug treatment facility.
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At Clinics, Tumultuous Lives and Turbulent Care

At Clinics, Tumultuous Lives and Turbulent Care
The divided world of buprenorphine clinics serves as a crossroads where addicts' tumultuous lives converge with a turbulent treatment environment.
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Methadone Coverage Could Return to Medicaid Menu

Methadone coverage could return to Medicaid menu
The Illinois Medicaid program is weighing whether to resume covering methadone treatments, a proposal likely to stir up controversy.
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Long-term methadone use is form of ‘State-sponsored social control’
Some addicts had been on the methadone treatment programme for 20 years
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Novus Medical Detox Comments on Proposed California Bill—Drug Users Need Treatment Instead of Prison Sentences
Florida-based detox center Novus Medical Detox says California’s recently proposed bill suggesting the use of treatment instead of prison sentences is a step in the right direction for gaining control of the current drug epidemic in the U.S., as well as reducing the costs of housing nonviolent offenders. (PRWeb November 04, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/11 …
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Sentencing in Kelsey Pynch Methadone Trafficking Case in Kentville Delayed

Sentencing in Kelsey Pynch methadone trafficking case in Kentville delayed
By Nancy Kelly [email protected] KingsCountyNews.ca Kelsey Leanne Pynch’s sentencing hearing was put over to early December to allow for expert testimony about methadone, a prescription drug used to wean addicts off opiates. Pynch, implicated in the 2012 overdose death of 21-year-old …
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Oakdale woman pleads guilty in methadone death
Emily Frye of Oakdale began “freaking out” when she heard of the Scandia man’s overdose death, charges said.
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Drug is ‘faster to buy than a pizza’
‘Jack’ says you can buy heroin in Cork faster “than you’d get a pizza”.
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Recovering Heroin Addict Tells of His Long-Fought Battle

Recovering heroin addict tells of his long-fought battle
By Cindy Ekas, Daily Courier Recovering heroin addict Bill Addis hit rock bottom four years ago after he lost everything he cared about. Addis was living at the City Mission …
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Whatever Trevor
Brandon Nichols looked at the judge in shock. It was as if he was expecting Superior Court Justice Kelly Gorman would be packing him off to jail, a place he knew well and a life he’s trying to put behind him.
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Man gets probation for beating drug dealer
Brandon Nichols looked at the judge in shock.
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FDA Approves More Powerful, Pure Hydrocodone Drug

FDA approves more powerful, pure hydrocodone drug
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a stronger, single-ingredient version hydrocodone, the widely-abused prescription painkiller. The agency said Friday it approved the extended-release pill …
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‘Please don’t let my baby girl die’
Twenty-year-old Katanna MacDonald, of Greenwood, died Thursday from an accidental overdose of methadone, the latest of several prescription drug deaths in the province. Police are investigating.
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Udall takes on prescription drug abuse
Udall takes on prescription drug abuse LOS LUNAS >> U.S. Sen. Tom Udall says steps need to be taken in New Mexico and across the country to curb escalating problems stemming from the abuse and trafficking of prescription drugs.
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