For Young People Addicted to Painkillers, the Path Less Taken — Why?

For Young People Addicted to Painkillers, the Path Less Taken — Why?
The Food and Drug Administration has approved three products to treat opioid addiction: methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone. These are very different medications with very different effect and side-effect profiles: • Methadone and buprenorphine …
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Lacey woman charged with manslaughter in baby's methadone death
Roughton told the detective that she had four doses of methadone in her safe because she had stored them and "was going to kill herself by consuming them all at once." When the detective asked Roughton why she wanted to kill herself, she said she felt …
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