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Inside A New York Drug Clinic: Allegations Of Kickbacks And Shoddy Care
NYSN's relationship with sober-home operators, which have provided nearly all its clients, helped it become the seventh-busiest, non-methadone-dispensing outpatient drug treatment clinic in New York City in 2011, state records show. The clinic saw …
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UK Deemed 'Addicted Man' Of Europe For Drug And Alcohol Crisis
British men experience a rate of alcohol dependence that is second highest in western Europe and seventh in the world, according to Alex Burghart, the Centre's director for policy. … Aside from the paucity of treatment programs for alcoholism in the …
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Inside a New York Drug Clinic, Allegations of Kickbacks and Shoddy Care
It's a system that victimizes not only alcoholics and addicts — making an already challenging recovery more difficult — but taxpayers who pick up the tab. … As the Columbia study notes, the success rate is low: Of those who enter outpatient care …
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Marianne Faithfull's long road to recovery
Marianne Faithfull's long road to recovery. New book … Eventually the addiction took over completely, and she found herself homeless and strung out living on a bomb site in Soho as a down-and-out, relying on handouts of methadone from the NHS. But …
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Addiction fuels Burke County crime, sheriff says
The Wilkes County unintentional poisoning mortality rate was quadruple that of the state's in 2009 and due almost exclusively to prescription opioid pain relievers, including fentanyl, hydrocodone, methadone, and oxycodone. The program is ongoing …
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Obama awards soldier Medal of Honor for 2009 heroics
Carter ran a gauntlet of heavy machine gun and sniper fire — carrying ammo, recovering a field radio, cradling a wounded comrade in his arms — sometimes zigzagging to dodge exploding rocket-propelled grenades or mortar rounds. When he wasn't …
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Call for action after figures show methadone has killed more addicts than …
We told how some addicts were put on methadone for decades, that the Government held no figures on recovery rates and that other potential addiction treatments were being ignored. The review, chaired by addictions expert Dr Brian Kidd, echoed many of …
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Experts back opioid replacement amid methadone death concerns
An independent group of experts was drafted in last year to review the evidence for ORT, in light of concerns that methadone deaths were rising after a 58% jump in the number of deaths related to methadone was recorded in 2011. The review, published …
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Man Has Drug Overdose, Police Say; Drug Paraphernalia Recovered
Police found old methadone bottles, two glass pipes which smelled of burnt cannabis, a metal round box used for cutting cannabis, two needles and a scale, according to the report. The victim said he shot up vicodin after being pressured by his friends …
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Home News Alarming number of young people turning to…
He has been methadone free for three years. He is 33-years-old. “He is intelligent. He could … And she commented that recovery programs need longevity to work and must include counselling and supports, such as geared-to-income housing. She added that …
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