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Using Methadone in the News

Using Methadone: Summer's first mosquitoes infected with West Nile Virus found in Boston
“It's again the time of year when it's not surprising to find mosquitoes infected with West Nile Virus in Boston,” said Dr. Anita Barry, director the Infectious Disease Bureau at the Boston Public Health Commission. “The recent combination of hot …
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Using Methadone: Paterno family: Release all emails and records
CDC: Methadone deaths may have peaked …. "With the leaking of selective emails over the last few days, it is clear that someone in a position of authority is not interested in a fair or thorough investigation," Sollers said in the strongly worded …
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Get Off Methadone in the News

Get Off Methadone: Methadone clinic coming to Huntsville
“I think a methadone clinic provides maybe some temporary relief but it is still keeping addicts addicted,” he said. “I think a better policy would be some sort of treatment to help addicts get off of drugs versus just substituting another drug. I …
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Get Off Methadone: Plans for methadone clinic scrapped
“I should have been notified." The council met with Mayor Bianchi off the record during a closed door executive session to discuss continued litigation on the matter. Whatever happens there, it's still believed the clinic will open here in the city …
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Methadone Treatment Doctors in the News

Methadone Treatment Doctors: Methadone clinic passes Sanford planning board
The clinic, Faris said, will specifically address addition to opiates such as heroin, and will use methadone in its treatment. Methadone, he said, is a narcotic substitute that has been in use for more than 40 years. Doctors use it to wean addicts off …
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Methadone Treatment Doctors: Methadone clinic plan raises ire
Tuesday June 19, 2012 PITTSFIELD — Angry about a proposed methadone clinic on Stoddard Avenue, a group of about 60 Morningside neighborhood residents rallied Monday afternoon in protest. … Residents said they learned on Friday that Spectrum Health …
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Methadone Treatment Doctors: Methadone users are going grey
Methadone users are going grey. 22 June, 2012 Kate Cowling comments. Methadone users are going grey The average age of people receiving methadone or other drug treatment for opioid dependence is increasing, according to a new report. About 85% of …
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Methadone Treatment For Pain in the News

Methadone Treatment For Pain: A medicine, a poison
They are drug addicts — heroin is typically their bane — who come for the methadone that numbs their pain. In Tazewell County this … While four of the deaths were determined to be accidental overdoses, the rest are being treated as drug-induced …
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Methadone Treatment For Pain: Morton teen faces homicide charges
Daughlton Calvin watched his two methadone customers drink the drug that killed them, according to drug-induced homicide charges filed against him in court Thursday. Calvin, 18, of Morton knew the dose of prescription pain medicine he gave Travis …
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Methadone Treatment For Pain: Methadone claims young life
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. (Facebook). GREENWOOD … Methadone is commonly used to …
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Methadone Addicts in the News

Methadone Addicts: Pittsfield methadone clinic sparks controversy
Bob Skowron lives across the street from a proposed Methadone Clinic on Stoddard Avenue in Pittsfield. The drug abuse treatment center would serve hundreds of heroin addicts from the Berkshire County area. The process also has neighbors in an uproar.
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Methadone Addicts: Bath Salts Lead Woman to Urinate on Million Painting
Published June 22, 2012. Fox News Latino. bath-salts-art-woman_art.jpg. Fox 31 Denver. DENVER – Seven months later, life has changed dramatically for Carmen Tisch. “I was a pill popper, heroin addict. I was in the methadone clinic for while,” Tisch said.
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Treating Methadone Withdrawal in the News

Treating Methadone Withdrawal: Take-home methadone maintenance treatment associated with …
Among people addicted to opioids, methadone maintenance treatment prevents symptoms of withdrawal, blocks the effects of illicit opioids, like heroin, and …
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Treating Methadone Withdrawal: Douglas Case Points to a Better Way for Those Affected by Addiction
… available prison-based treatment programs, including peer-to-peer support, … a prescribed medication used to stem the effects of opioid withdrawal — would do … or pharmacological therapy such as methadone, antabuse or naltrexone.
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Treating Methadone Withdrawal: Doctors encouraged to use methadone treatment
CPSNS Methadone Maintenance Treatment Handbook … It works by blocking opioid receptors in the brain to take away cravings and prevent withdrawal …
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