Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics – Boston Globe

Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe


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Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Boston Globe
Methadone is often stigmatized, he acknowledged, but for some addicts — when it's used in combination with counseling and other treatments — the substitute drug makes a dramatic difference in their lives. “Methadone will allow you to go from a

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Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe

Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe
Shutting the clinic, which has offered methadone to opiate addicts for 40 years, would mean that hundreds of clients served every day at the Frontage Road site and at a separate counseling center in the South End would be treated by private providers, …

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Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM
Would seem to make more sense to substitute medical marijuana for methadone to treat addicts. Methadone can be just as lethal as the drug for which it's being substituted. I saw far more economic and personal damage from alcohol than from pot during my …

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American Pain Society Publishes New Clinical Practice Guideline on Methadone … – Newswise (press release)

American Pain Society Publishes New Clinical Practice Guideline on Methadone
Newswise (press release)
Methadone is a synthetic opioid narcotic to treat opioid addiction and chronic pain. Safety of the drug has been a major clinical concern in recent years. U.S. deaths from methadone overdoses have increased from 800 in 1999 to 4,900 in 2008. The

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Crimean side-effect: Heroin addicts deprived of methadone because Russia … – Newser


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Crimean side-effect: Heroin addicts deprived of methadone because Russia
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In this photo taken Tuesday, April 1, 2014, Denis Troshin, who runs the local NGO, Harbor-Plus, which helps coordinate methadone therapy for 130 of Sevastopol's recovering addicts, speaks in his office… (Associated Press) …
Crimeans Cut Off from Methadone and McDonald's After AnnexationThe Wire
Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadoneCharlotte Observer

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