Fast Facts About Some Obstacles to Heroin Sobriety

Fast facts about some obstacles to heroin sobriety
Of those, about 10 percent are residential facilities, about 80 percent are outpatient programs and about 10 percent are methadone clinics. In this Tuesday … The cost of heroin detoxification alone, which usually takes three to five days, is around …
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Pair Opens ‘recovery-based’ Center to Treat Addictions – Baltimore Sun

Pair opens ‘recovery-based’ center to treat addictions – Baltimore Sun

Pair opens 'recovery-based' center to treat addictions
Baltimore Sun
"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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Waiting lists for addiction treatment grow, as region sees increase in heroin use – Elmira Star-Gazette


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

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 …

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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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Annexation Bad News for Crimea’s Rehab Patients – RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

Annexation Bad News For Crimea’s Rehab Patients – RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty


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Annexation Bad News For Crimea's Rehab Patients
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
… we'll end up stealing again and going to jail." To avoid withdrawal and a possible relapse, Crimean rehab patients are now left with two options: relocate to mainland Ukraine to continue their methadone therapy or quit cold turkey in a Russia-run

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Methadone given to girl at age 4 started her slow death – Columbus Dispatch


Columbus Dispatch

Methadone given to girl at age 4 started her slow death
Columbus Dispatch
She declined an interview request through Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction officials. Whether she will face additional charges has not been determined, Fulton said. The case will be forwarded to the Franklin County prosecutor's office

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Ireland has 9615 methadone users but care plans needed to get them drug-free – thejournal.ie

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

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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What’s best for babies born to drug-addicted mothers? – The Tennessean

What's best for babies born to drug-addicted mothers?
The Tennessean
Doctors agree the "gold standard" for treating opioid addiction is through careful administration of addiction therapy drugs — either methadone or buprenorphine. Abrupt detoxification is actually dangerous to a pregnancy and can cause miscarriage or

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