Parents Using Methadone to Pacify Children, Charity Warns – the Guardian

Parents using methadone to pacify children, charity warns – The Guardian


The Guardian

Parents using methadone to pacify children, charity warns
The Guardian
Children born to mothers taking methadone have a drug dependency which hospitals deal with through a withdrawal program for two weeks after birth. Their parents sometimes mistakenly think a baby crying at home is doing so because of opium cravings …

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Trafficker’s mom tells judge of son’s effort – TheChronicleHerald.ca

Trafficker's mom tells judge of son's effort
TheChronicleHerald.ca
He went into a methadone program, has tested drug free for well over a year, gets mental health and addictions counselling, has a part-time job, paid back the people he owned money and has helped pay his legal bills, Beaton wrote in a letter to Judge

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Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug … – Insurance News Net (press release)

Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug
Insurance News Net (press release)
Suboxone clinics, which provide an alternative to methadone for opioid withdrawal, treat an increasing number of patients in the privacy of a clinician's office. Many of those seeking treatment at suboxone clinics are hooked on painkillers. Local detox

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Waiting lists for addiction treatment grow, as region sees increase in heroin use – Elmira Star-Gazette

Waiting lists for addiction treatment grow, as region sees increase in heroin use
Elmira Star-Gazette
The 29-year-old Ithaca man, whose name is being withheld because of the stigma attached to addiction, injected heroin off and on for about six months until not using the drug meant withdrawal symptoms. … Not all kinds of drug treatment involve using

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