Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – SFGate

Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment – SFGate


SFGate

Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
SFGate
Because withdrawal is not directly deadly, most insurance companies won't pay for inpatient heroin detoxification or rehab, said Anthony Rizzuto, a provider relations representative at Seafield Center, a rehabilitation clinic on Long Island. They

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School District faces .5 million judgment in child’s injury – Anchorage Daily News


Anchorage Daily News

School District faces $ 4.5 million judgment in child's injury
Anchorage Daily News
In that case, the district contends in court filings, the plaintiff was high on methadone and other prescription drugs and behind the wheel at the time of the accident. The district spends about $ 1 million a year on legal services of all kinds, … An

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Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures – Bucks County Courier Times

Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures
Bucks County Courier Times
… protocols believe the risk of danger to the woman and fetus is too great. Instead, they are placed in a methadone replacement program at an outside state-certified treatment center. … Standard medical protocols, including federal prison

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Hong Kong girls using wider variety of drugs than boys as addicts get younger – South China Morning Post

Hong Kong girls using wider variety of drugs than boys as addicts get younger
South China Morning Post
Laidler adds: "Documenting reports about drug users are estimates at best. With heroin users, they are addicted to methadone [used to reduce withdrawal symptoms] so these numbers can be counted at rehab centres. But with cannabis and ketamine a large …

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Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone – New Zealand Herald

Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone
New Zealand Herald
Viktor Levchenko, 36, a patient of treatment for drug addiction, poses at a bus stop with an advert reading 'Rehabilitation of drug and alcohol addicts'. Photo / AP. Every morning, Sergei Kislov takes the bus to the rundown outskirts of this port city

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