Exclusive: Use of Anti-Drug Drug Methadone Prevalent, but Controversial – the News-Press

Methadone Detox: Exclusive: Use of anti-drug drug methadone prevalent, but controversial – The News-Press

Exclusive: Use of anti-drug drug methadone prevalent, but controversial
The News-Press
One of the loudest critics of extended methadone treatment is the Novus Detox Center in Pasco County. Steve Hayes, its director, calls methadone clinics barbaric and their practice of providing the drug to pregnant women "the planned torture of babies.

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Methadone Detox: ‘Thai heroin detox worked for me’ – BBC News


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'Thai heroin detox worked for me'
BBC News
She said she had previously tried to give up heroin and had been prescribed substitute drugs like Methadone and Subutex, but just found herself stuck on them. "Thamkrabok was something I believed in and knew would help my mind, body and spirit," she

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Methadone Detox: Out on a limb — heroin users beyond the pale – Irish Medical Times


Irish Medical Times

Out on a limb — heroin users beyond the pale
Irish Medical Times
There is often local resistance to proven treatment modalities, such as methadone maintenance, and resources are often directed to ineffective counselling and detox programmes. In areas such as the South East, for example, where there are reportedly

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Methadone Detox: ‘Prescription drugs are killing people like crazy’ – Daily Astorian

'Prescription drugs are killing people like crazy'
Daily Astorian
With commonly prescribed opiates such as oxycontin, oxycodone, morphine and methadone, “addiction happens fast and hits hard,” Deputy Guest said. But once the pills are gone from a person's system, withdrawal kicks in immediately, Hoover said. “Detox

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Methadone Detox: Nineteen indicted in breakup of painkiller distribution ring
The dismantling of an elaborate prescription painkiller distribution ring merely “opened the front” in the war on illegal pills in Western Pennsylvania, a crime that is growing here and nationwide, U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton said.
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