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Rapid Opioid Detox Method Linked to Hospitalizations, Deaths
An investigation by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene found that anesthesia-assisted rapid opioid detoxification (AAROD) put patients at risk for serious adverse events, including cardiac arrest, vomiting, pulmonary edema and …
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Inmate dies in jail
She was quarantined at Middle River for detox from methadone, Lee said, and she was checked every 30 minutes. During one round of checks, she was found dead in her cell, he said. Her body was sent to the medical examiners' office in Roanoke and a …
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What's Wrong With Addiction Literature?
… and the rest have doggedly and pathetically and triumphantly persevered," Wurtzel recently wrote at the Daily Beast. Well. The first person in the band who played this song to die did so while detoxing from alcohol at age 32; the next one died of a …
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Heroin: Treating Kitsap's addiction | Herald series
“It's a variety of symptoms. They are difficult, but they are not fatal.” The Olalla Guest Lodge provides sub-acute detox, a method that utilizes medication to manage the symptoms during detox. Detox is only the first step, however. Treatment takes …
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Police to collect unwanted medications
Most of those deaths, more than 14,800, were the result of opioid painkiller abuse, drugs like Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet, methadone and codeine. Opioids block pain receptors in the brain, which can cause a feeling of euphoria. They also act as …
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LA County Officials Predict Substance Misuse Care Will Expand Under ACA
New benefits offered through county alcohol and drug programs Jan. 1 include residential treatment, inpatient detoxification, enhanced outpatient counseling, methadone maintenance, day care services and perinatal treatment. "There's been a big …
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Rapid Opioid Detox Method Linked to Hospitalizations, Deaths
An investigation by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene found that anesthesia-assisted rapid opioid detoxification (AAROD) put patients at risk for serious adverse events, including cardiac arrest, vomiting, pulmonary edema and …
Read more on Anesthesiology News

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Double murderer jailed for life in WA
He later admitted to the murders, but claimed he was not of sound mind because he was detoxing from methadone and suffering adverse effects from medication. But Justice Lindy Jenkins convicted him of murder during a judge-alone trial earlier this year.
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Life sentence for Gary Edmund Brown over Maylands double murder
Brown, 49, pleaded not guilty, claiming he was not of sound mind because he was detoxing from methadone and suffering adverse effects from medication. But he was convicted of the murder during a judge-alone trial this year. He was sentenced today to …
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