Boston to Shutter Drug Treatment Facility – Boston Globe

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


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Parents using methadone to pacify children, charity warns
The Guardian
Some children are being given methadone by parents with a serious drug addiction to "pacify" them, warns a charity working with families coping with narcotic abuse. In the first detailed examination of the risks to children of drug treatment

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Methadone and buprenorphine-naloxone both associated with reduced HIV risk … – aidsmap

Methadone and buprenorphine-naloxone both associated with reduced HIV risk
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Methadone maintenance therapy and treatment with buprenorphine-naloxone are equally effective at reducing HIV injecting risk behaviours among people who inject drugs, investigators from the United States report in the online edition of the Journal of …

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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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Deputies investigating methadone treatment facility armed robbery – WRDW-TV

Deputies investigating methadone treatment facility armed robbery
WRDW-TV
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) — The Augusta Metro Treatment Center is the latest victim of an armed robbery in Augusta, Richmond County dispatch said. The methadone treatment facility on Ellis Street was robbed around 10:30 a.m., dispatch said. According to a …

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