Drug Abuse Methadone: Rise in Prescription Drug Abuse Prompts Emergency Room Visits, Deaths – Deseret News
Drug Abuse Methadone: Rise in prescription drug abuse prompts emergency room visits, deaths – Deseret News
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Rise in prescription drug abuse prompts emergency room visits, deaths
Deseret News Doctors started prescribing methadone, which is best known for its use in addiction treatment, as a pain killer in the late 1990s after drug addicts figured out a way to get around Oxycontin's time-release mechanism by crushing and snorting. methadone … |
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Methadone: A Major Driver of Prescription Painkiller Overdose Deaths – TIME
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Methadone: A Major Driver of Prescription Painkiller Overdose Deaths
TIME So, in tandem, rates of nonmedical use of methadone and fatal overdoses have risen; the drugs involved in these cases are typically diverted from pain treatment, not from addiction treatment programs. So why is methadone so much more deadly when used … Methadone deaths still high but may have peaked Methadone for Pain Relief Leading Cause of Fatal Overdoses: CDC |
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Methadone deaths slow in Mother Lode – Union Democrat
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Methadone deaths slow in Mother Lode
Union Democrat Local behavioral health officials say there's probably far fewer deaths resulting from methadone use in this area due to a lack of clinics certified to prescribe the powerful drug. The CDC report said that, while methadone accounts for just 2 percent … CDC Report Attributes One in Three OD Deaths to Methadone Many Fatal Overdoses Linked to Methadone Methadone blamed for 1 of 10 Ohio drug deaths |
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