Archive for the ‘Methadone Recovery’ Category
The Valley's Heroin Epidemic – Part #2 Prevention
The Valley's heroin epidemic – Part #2 Prevention
… treatment of adolescent girls. Danielle Procopio's brother, Dennis Howells, died of an overdose in June, now along with her mother, Anna Howells, they're working to make sure others suffering the pain of addiction get the help they need. "A lot of …
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This Drug Could Make a Huge Dent in Heroin Addiction. So Why Isn’t It Used More? – Washington Post (Blog)
This drug could make a huge dent in heroin addiction. So why isn’t it used more? – Washington Post (blog)
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This drug could make a huge dent in heroin addiction. So why isn't it used more?
Washington Post (blog) Substitution therapies — first methadone, more recently, buprenorphine — provide an imperfect but essential tool to treat opiate disorders, and thus to ameliorate harms associated with the misuse of these substances. Our research group has published … |
All Agree: Drug Abuse Is an Epidemic
All agree: drug abuse is an epidemic
The Barnstable Human Services Committee listened thoughtfully this week as Cape Cod Times reporter K.C. Myers related the statistics and issues she has uncovered in her continuing series on drug abuse and addiction on Cape Cod. Then, together, they …
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Call for rethink of Vic methadone program
Victoria's heroin recovery program has contributed to a shameful number of deaths as patients prescribed "takeaway" doses of methadone abuse the system, a coroner says. Methadone given to patients trying to ween themselves off heroin killed at least 21 …
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Overmedicating Alabama Veterans at VA Hospitals: 'It'S a Sad, Sad Sight'
Overmedicating Alabama veterans at VA hospitals: 'It's a sad, sad sight'
Prescriptions at VA hospitals for four opiates — hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and morphine — have increased by 270 percent since 2001. Three of the four VA medical facilities in central Alabama and the Gulf Coast exceeded the national average in …
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Moves to Tackle Dundee Drugs and Booze – Evening Telegraph
Moves to tackle Dundee drugs and booze – Evening Telegraph
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Moves to tackle Dundee drugs and booze
Evening Telegraph Vered Hopkins, from the ADP, said that there are problems in the city with drug users completing their recovery. She said: “We will be able to implement improvements after the meetings and service users and their … the year before. Two people in … |
Methadone+ Recovery – Google News
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Our Say: Methadone Program for Prisoners Worth Trying; Happy Halloween
Our say: Methadone program for prisoners worth trying; Happy Halloween
… jails offer methadone treatment to prisoners addicted to heroin and opioid painkillers. Road to Recovery, now in its second year, provides methadone and intense counseling as an alternative to the traditional method of forced withdrawal, called detox.
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