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Perinatal summit tackles abuse
"With methadone and narcotics, there can be withdrawal symptoms. … In Thursday's pre-conference workshop, Chasnoff talked about medical, social and neurobehavioral effects of substance use during pregnancy along with ways to address each problem.
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Eminem's Top 20 Songs
It was a miracle really: A self-described “white boy” from Detroit travels to Los Angeles to battle in the Rap Olympics and comes in second place (which he asserts is some bullshit). An Interscope employee witnesses said kid in action … It was …
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Morning round-up: Peters and Blanford lead school board races, other election …
Peters, Blanford lead in Seattle School Board races: One of the most heavily funded Seattle School Board races in recent history remained too close to call Wednesday morning, with parent activist Sue Peters leading consultant Suzanne Dale Estey by just …
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State fined 0k for man's overdose at treatment center
Jeffrey S. Harbin checked himself in to a state drug treatment center to break his addiction. He was dead days later, poisoned by methadone at the R. J. Blackley Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center in Butner. More than four years after his August …
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Parents Outraged Over Methadone Clinic Opened Near Richmond Elementary …
Parents like Abeer Neaal can't believe the Richmond Treatment Center which uses methadone to treat heroin and morphine addicts was permitted to open here. Her son has to walk by the center to get to school. "I don't understand why they would put a meth …
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Oakdale woman pleads guilty in methadone death
Methadone is a powerful, potentially life-threatening drug that has various medical uses such as treating addictions to narcotic drugs such as heroin. Washington County didn't offer any concessions in the plea before Judge Ellen Maas, said prosecutor …
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NKY addiction treatment center adds staff, rooms
Individual counseling, life-skills instruction and other treatments are also provided by Pinnacle, which operates others like NKY Med Clinic in Georgetown, New Jersey, Minnesota and Pennsylvania. The expansion makes the clinic the third largest …
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St. Clair Shores man convicted in Ohio drug bust
Montgomery County Prosecutor Mat Heck Jr. says 30-year-old William Hedges, of St. Clair Shores, Mich., was convicted Thursday in Dayton on two counts of aggravated possession of drugs. The State Highway Patrol said the pills seized in a June 20 traffic …
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Activists: Physicians in California Should Be Tested for Drugs
“Were it to pass, community clinics would have to close, patients would have a lot of trouble finding a doctor and a lot more money would go into the pockets of trial lawyers. … Pack “lost his two children — Troy, who was 10, and Alana, who was 7 …
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