Drug Methadone: Readers Debate Using Public Dollars to Treat Drug Addicts – MLive.com

Drug Methadone: Readers debate using public dollars to treat drug addicts – MLive.com


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Readers debate using public dollars to treat drug addicts
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Methadone suppresses drug cravings but does not give a "high" to the user. It costs about $ 9 per day, per patient, to administer in Grand Rapids. The increasing number of patients using methadone to try to kick their addictions to prescription drugs or
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Drug Methadone: Methadone Addict Kills Child in Car Accident – Gather.com

Methadone Addict Kills Child in Car Accident
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The New Mexico mother deserves everything she gets after this brainless, drug-induced incident. Police report that 28-year old Devon Martinez smashed into a tractor-trailer while driving an SUV with her children in the vehicle with her.

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Drug Methadone: ‘Detox or Die’ – BBC 2004 (Clip 1: preparing for ibogaine treatment)



Clip from my BBC broadcast documentary Detox or Die. This is at the point where I’ve taken my last dose of methadone and set off to London for a ‘quick fix’ treatment with the visionary drug ibogaine. Here’s the BBC description of the film: ‘Detox or Die provides an in-depth portrait of a small-time drug addict seeking redemption. Addicted to opiates for almost 20 years, filmmaker David Graham Scott decides to opt for a quick fix. The radical detox agent ibogaine puts the user into a gut-wrenching hallucinatory state for 36 hours from which he emerges cleansed of his addiction. But several fatalities have been reported in connection with the unlicensed drug and Scott must weigh up the options before embarking on the trip of a lifetime.’ Broadcast as part of BBC1’s ONE life strand.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Drug Methadone: Preventing Avoidable Opioid-Related Deaths Top Priority For Pain Medicine Field
Deaths related to prescription opioid therapy are under intense scrutiny, prompting those in pain medicine-clinicians, patient advocates, and regulators-to understand the causes behind avoidable mortality in legitimately treated patients. Studies reporting on statistics, causes, and adverse events involving opioid treatment are now available in a special supplement of Pain Medicine, a journal …
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Drug Methadone: Preventing Avoidable Opioid-Related Deaths Top Priority For Pain Medicine Field
Risky behavior, psychiatric disorders, substance abuse contribute to opioid overdose Deaths related to prescription opioid therapy are under intense scrutiny, prompting those in pain medicine—clinicians, patient advocates, and regulators—to understand the causes behind avoidable mortality in legitimately treated patients. Studies reporting on statistics, causes, and adverse events involving …
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