Archive for the ‘Methadone Withdrawal’ Category
Painkiller, Heroin Abuse Growing Problem in Pima County – KVOA Tucson News
Painkiller, heroin abuse growing problem in Pima County – KVOA Tucson News
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Painkiller, heroin abuse growing problem in Pima County
KVOA Tucson News "These opiates are so addicting that you have to have them or you can't function — you start vomiting — and having the same withdrawal symptoms that you would have from heroin," she said. It's stories like Laura Villa's that worries wholesalers of … |
Methadone+ Withdrawal – Google News
Crouse’s opioid program expanding to meet rising needs for treatment – WRVO Public Media
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Crouse's opioid program expanding to meet rising needs for treatment
WRVO Public Media "They're both in the opiate class. So now you have people who never thought they'd use heroin, using heroin as a way to alleviate withdrawal symptoms and deal with that addiction.” Raymond says methadone, a synthetic opiate based drug, is a proven way … |
Philip Seymour Hoffman Didn't Have to Die
Philip Seymour Hoffman Didn't Have to Die
The majority can be avoided with simple measures — such as knowing the signs of overdose and keeping a nontoxic antidote available in first aid kits— that the U.S. has been slow to adopt. The stigma of … Naloxone is nontoxic and cannot be abused …
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Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Points to Broader Opioid Drug Epidemic – Washington Post
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death points to broader opioid drug epidemic – Washington Post
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Philip Seymour Hoffman's death points to broader opioid drug epidemic
Washington Post “In the storm of narcotic withdrawal, any opiate port will do,” said Jim Hall, an epidemiologist at Nova Southeastern University who studies addiction. Prescription painkillers may also grease a slippery slope toward a relapse for former heroin addicts … Breaking the cycle: Heroin's deadly grip on addicts In private, tortured drama, Hoffman loses life to drugs Investigators 'found 49 bags of heroin and used syringes' in Hoffman's apartment |
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A ‘blockade’ for opiates: Vivitrol offers hope for treatment – Wisconsin State Journal
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A 'blockade' for opiates: Vivitrol offers hope for treatment
Wisconsin State Journal For the past several months, a Dane County drug treatment facility has been trying to help opiate-addicted men and women coming out of jail with a new medication that could boost recovery chances by more than 50 percent. Called Vivitrol, the monthly … |
Heroin on the Rise in Iowa, Around Rural Midwest
Heroin on the rise in Iowa, around rural Midwest
She said her son was in and out of rehab all of last year, which proved to be an emotional journey for the entire family. … Her clinic offers methadone, which is a synthetic opiate that allows the user to kick heroin without the cold-turkey …
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Experts worry about effect of dropping hundreds of addicted Mainers from …
BANGOR, Maine — On the first day of 2014, hundreds of Mainers were removed from their methadone and Suboxone treatment regimens after losing MaineCare coverage, prompting concern among addiction treatment experts and addicts that many former methadone …
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Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Points to Broader Opioid Drug Epidemic – Washington Post
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death points to broader opioid drug epidemic – Washington Post
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Philip Seymour Hoffman's death points to broader opioid drug epidemic
Washington Post “In the storm of narcotic withdrawal, any opiate port will do,” said Jim Hall, an epidemiologist at Nova Southeastern University who studies addiction. Prescription painkillers may also grease a slippery slope toward a relapse for former heroin addicts … Once an Addict Always an Addict? |
Methadone+ Withdrawal – Google News
Affordable Care Act expands coverage for addiction treatment – 89.3 KPCC
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Affordable Care Act expands coverage for addiction treatment
89.3 KPCC Then there's outpatient care such as day-treatment; intensive outpatient programs – those are programs that serve a patient three hours a day, at least three days a week; then there's individual and group counseling and medical care for withdrawal … |
Critics: LePage's 'War on Drugs' Approach to Addiction Misguided
Critics: LePage's 'War on Drugs' Approach to Addiction Misguided
But to combat Maine's decades-long opiate problem, LePage offered nothing in the way of expanded access to treatment. And as Susan Sharon reports critics say his approach is, at best, … "The average cost of a drug-affected birth in 2009 – this is in …
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