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Bangor Adopts Contentious Moratorium on Suboxone Treatment Expansions

Bangor adopts contentious moratorium on Suboxone treatment expansions
The temporary ban was met with opposition from representatives of addiction treatment organizations, as well as several recovering addicts who attended meetings on the moratorium during the past month. Those discussions sparked several changes to the …
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Drug Addicts in Surabaya Turning to Methadone
Methadone is also considered very affordable because the patients only need to pay Rp 10,000 ($ 0.86) for each treatment while with heroine the drug user needs to spend Rp 100,000 per injection and they need at last four injections every day. However …
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Bangor City Council Weighs in on Moratorium

Bangor City Council weighs in on moratorium
BANGOR, Maine  (NEWS CENTER)– The Bangor City council will once again discuss the Queen City's treatment options for people addicted to opiates. The council will hear two ordinances which will place a moratorium on any new programs for buprenorphine or suboxone which is an alternative treatment to methadone. Some city leaders want to decentralize the amount of treatment facilities in Bangor …
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South Burlington School Board proposes new zoning around schools
The entrance to the Chittenden Clinic, a methadone and buprenorphine treatment facility, for individuals with opiate addiction in South Burlington on Wednesday.
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Vietnam Urges More Methadone Treatment for People Who Use Drugs – Weekly Blitz

Vietnam urges more methadone treatment for people who use drugs – Weekly Blitz

Vietnam urges more methadone treatment for people who use drugs
Weekly Blitz
Statistics by the HIV/AIDS Prevention Department of the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Vietnam shows that currently there are about 170,000 drug users in the listed record of the country. Vietnam is urging more methadone treatment for people who use drugs 

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As Heroin Use Increases, Treatment Funds Go Down – Bellingham Herald

As heroin use increases, treatment funds go down – Bellingham Herald


Bellingham Herald

As heroin use increases, treatment funds go down
Bellingham Herald
One approach that can help addicts quit heroin is “opioid replacement therapy,” which gives heroin users less harmful synthetic opioids such as methadone or Suboxone. In Olympia, there is only one clinic where people with a heroin problem can get 

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Methadone + volume expansion – Video of the integrated autodose pump dispensing methadone (left hand side pump) and water to volume expand the dose to 100mls (right hand side pump).


In Heroin's Grip: Overdose Deaths Expose Torrington's Struggle With Addiction

In heroin's grip: Overdose deaths expose Torrington's struggle with addiction
Dr. Robert Heimer, a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, has studied fatal overdoses from heroin or pharmaceutical narcotic painkillers and drug addiction in Connecticut. He said the state is seeing a … “Neither one by …
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Series of pharmacy robberies
Christina Cipriani is not only a parent in Vernon, but she works at the Hartford Dispensary Methadone Program. She sees the effects of addiction every day, as people come into the clinic for help. "It's definitely something that is progressing, so we …
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Medical marijuana dispensary eyed for former Winsted KFC building
At this point, the number of patients in Connecticut is a little more than 1,000. “There are preferred locations for … Earlier this year The Hartford's Dispensary Methadone Clinic was approved to open a location in Torrington. After a lengthy fight …
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As Heroin Use Increases, Treatment Funds Go Down – the Olympian

As heroin use increases, treatment funds go down – The Olympian


The Olympian

As heroin use increases, treatment funds go down
The Olympian
One approach that can help addicts quit heroin is “opioid replacement therapy,” which gives heroin users less harmful synthetic opioids such as methadone or Suboxone. In Olympia, there is only one clinic where people with a heroin problem can get 

and more »

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“Methadone is not the way to go…I would go with Suboxone” – Just in the last 3 weeks in this program, my urges had completely gone away. I believe it’s possible. I haven’t thought of touching an opioid. I didn’t even …