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Ontario Improving Care for Chronic Pain Sufferers
Ontario Improving Care for Chronic Pain Sufferers
This "hub and spoke" model will use videoconferencing to provide case-based training and share best care methods, for example, how to manage chronic pain through the development of care plans and the safe use of treatments like opioids. ECHO Ontario …
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Montana Doctor With Idaho Ties Has License Yanked; Examiners Cite …
In 2001, Christensen voluntarily surrendered his medical license for two years while he underwent a pain management course. Additionally, in 1995, Idaho prosecutors alleged that Christensen had prescribed controlled substances to … As part of its …
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Trojan's 'STD Month' Scheme
A new perspective on the Zohydro debate published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine identifies a larger issue: the dual challenge of managing both chronic pain and addiction. There has been a substantial public outcry in … training in …
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American Pain Society Publishes New Clinical Practice Guideline on Methadone Safety
American Pain Society Publishes New Clinical Practice Guideline on Methadone Safety
Improved physician education and patient counseling about methadone safety and ECG monitoring to identify patients at high risk for cardiac problems will lead to safer use of the medication, according to the American Pain Society's Clinical Practice Guideline on Methadone Safety, published this week in The Journal of Pain.
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The Enemy at Home: Veterans Addicted & Dying From VA Pain Pills
The Enemy at Home: Veterans Addicted & Dying From VA Pain Pills
Military records and independent studies obtained by 13 Investigates show many returning veterans received staggering amounts of powerful narcotics to treat their physical and emotional wounds. Veterans and military … The dramatic increase …
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Baldi jurors hear complicated details of patient deaths
She determined the cause as being an accidental drug overdose, especially of the painkiller methadone and an antidepressant, with the heart problems as a contributing factor. Cook asked Catellier if she knew that none of the drugs in Krutsinger's …
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US Officials Call for Greater Use of Medications to Treat Drug Abuse
Therapeutic drugs to treat prescription drug abuse include methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone. Methadone has for years been widely administered at heroin clinics in the U.S.; buprenorphine can be prescribed by qualifying doctors, and naltrexone is …
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Boston’s Only Public Methadone Clinic May Shut – Boston Globe
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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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, … |
Methadone Treatment – Google News
Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM
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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 … |
Methadone Treatment – Google News
American Pain Society Publishes New Clinical Practice Guideline on Methadone … – Newswise (press release)
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 … |
Methadone Treatment – Google News
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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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, … |
Methadone Treatment – Google News
Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM
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 … |
Methadone Treatment – Google News
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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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, … |
Methadone Treatment – Google News
Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM