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Sentence delayed in Katanna MacDonald methadone case
A Nova Scotia provincial court judge has reserved his decision in the case of a 22-year-old Annapolis Valley woman who has admitted to selling methadone to a friend who later died in hospital.
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Pynch may face jail term in methadone case
By Nancy Kelly [email protected] KingsCountyNews.ca Kelsey Pynch’s sentencing hearing continued Dec. 4 with testimony about methadone, a prescription drug used to wean addicts off opiates. The 22 year-old Nicholsville resident was implicatedin the 2012 overdose death of 20-year-old …
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Thousands on methadone treatment
Thousands of New Zealanders are receiving methadone treatment to wean them off heavier drugs, with many patients addicted to painkillers rather than illicit drugs such as heroin. Since 2007 the number of patients treated at methadone clinics has …
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Holmesburg residents, pols dread proposed methadone clinic
Since rumors started in 2011 that the shuttered bar's new tenants planned to open a methadone clinic, Vaughn has been joined by Holmesburg and Mayfair civic leaders and by hundreds of residents in a legal battle to prevent drug addicts from getting …
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Holmesburg residents: Methadon't!
Residents & pols fear that a proposed clinic and hundreds of addicts would bring drug-dealing, crime.
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Holmesburg residents: Methadon't! Philly.com "Kids I grew up with are on methadone. All of them say the same thing: 'You wouldn't want that [clinic] in your community.' "I'm not against methadone treatment," DeFelice continued. "But I've heard that some [addicts] go in, get their methadone, then …

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Re-mapping London's methadone myths
“(Medical) clinics and social services tend to be on Dundas between Quebec and Richmond, so why put methadone clinics anywhere else if that's where the people are?” He believes the geographical data will dispel the myth that because drug use tends to …
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Man gets probation for beating drug dealer
He went to a residential-treatment program at a healing lodge in Quebec before returning to the Forest City. And he relapsed. A month after the assault, he was in a methadone-treatment program. He got married last summer to his longtime girlfriend and …
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Methadone: Treatment turned toxic
Lee mentioned a Fox news article about the issue — in May, KMSP reported that Minnesota spends $ 10 million annually in taxpayer funds to pay for methadone treatment “for those who can't pay for it themselves.” Their investigation also found there is a …
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