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Addicted to Profits: Insurance Companies Adjust Coverage of Methadone Clinics – Daily Free Press (Subscription)
Addicted to Profits: Insurance companies adjust coverage of methadone clinics – Daily Free Press (subscription)
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Addicted to Profits: Insurance companies adjust coverage of methadone clinics
Daily Free Press (subscription) With lives at stake, methadone clinics play an integral role in treating opiate addicts. However, the actions of city and state government, insurance companies and private equity firms may impose financial difficulties on patients seeking opiate … |
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Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe
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Boston to shutter drug treatment facility
Boston Globe In a 6-to-1 vote last week, Boston's Board of Health decided to end more than 40 years of city-run methadone treatment, which uses the narcotic to wean addicts from heroin and other opiates. The addiction services will now be handled by Community … |
Pair Opens 'recovery-based' Center to Treat Addictions
Pair opens 'recovery-based' center to treat addictions
"We call it recovery-based," said Bierman, meaning that detoxification is part of the treatment. "I see other treatment centers, especially with opiate addicts, use replacement medication, also known as medication management, where they substitute …
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Capital Health Care: LICH scoresheet, revealed; new health dept. rules
HEALTH EXCLUSIVE –- A comprehensive review of the scoring sheets used to evaluate the nine proposals for LICH shows inconsistencies in how the bids were evaluated, and demonstrates a deeply flawed process that allowed the 18 judges, some of whom had no …
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Addicted to Profits: Insurance Companies Adjust Coverage of Methadone Clinics
Addicted to Profits: Insurance companies adjust coverage of methadone clinics
With lives at stake, methadone clinics play an integral role in treating opiate addicts. However, the actions of city and state government, insurance companies and private equity firms may impose financial difficulties on patients seeking opiate addiction treatment. Last month, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick declared opiate abuse a public health emergency in Massachusetts, citing potent […]
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Boston to Shutter Drug Treatment Facility – Boston Globe
Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe
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Boston to shutter drug treatment facility
Boston Globe In a 6-to-1 vote last week, Boston's Board of Health decided to end more than 40 years of city-run methadone treatment, which uses the narcotic to wean addicts from heroin and other opiates. The addiction services will now be handled by Community … |
Methadone Treatment – Google News
Waiting lists for addiction treatment grow, as region sees increase in heroin use – Press & Sun-Bulletin
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Waiting lists for addiction treatment grow, as region sees increase in heroin use
Press & Sun-Bulletin Today, the recovering addict climbs into a taxi cab at 5 a.m. every weekday for a 60-mile drive to Crouse Hospital in Syracuse, where he receives methadone treatment. And that came only after a two-month delay on the program's waiting list, which is … Health Officials Call for Better Access to Addiction Treatment |
The Heroin Addiction Scourge
The heroin addiction scourge
The quiet, peaceful and pastoral state of Vermont is in the midst of a devastating heroin crisis. … But methadone “treatment” is a little like “curing” the alcoholic who drinks a 12-pack of beer every day by giving him a quart of rum to drink every …
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Finding Treatment for Opiate Addiction Fraught With Challenges
Finding treatment for opiate addiction fraught with challenges
When opiate addiction reaches a crisis point, either through a medical emergency or a drug user's life falling apart, it can be hard knowing where to turn.
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Addiction research looks toward opiate blockers
Prescription painkillers have a double reinforcing effect, making them a risk for abuse, according to Dr. Gerardo Gonzalez, director of addiction psychiatry at University of Massachusetts Medical School. The opioids not only provide immediate euphoria, but habitual users undergo painful withdrawal if they abruptly stop taking them.
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