STEPHENSON: Nova Scotia Doctors Need to Confront Prescription Drug Abuse
STEPHENSON: Nova Scotia doctors need to confront prescription drug abuse
It has a stellar prescription drug monitoring program and the college developed a methadone treatment handbook in 2012 that has become “the gold standard” in assisting physicians to treat patients with addictions. The new … Each of these doctor …
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At 21, recovering heroin addict starts over
About a month after his release from a court-ordered, 8½-month residential treatment program, Lewis, then 17, reverted to his old ways. He returned to marijuana and … Lewis completed rehab and started taking methadone. But after six months, he says, …
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EMA – Review of oral methadone medicines containing povidone started
The review was triggered by the Norwegian Medicines Agency, NOMA, following a number of reports of kidney failure in former or current drug abusers which may be linked to the misuse of methadone oral solutions containing certain types of povidone …
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