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A 'Shooting Galleries' Heroin Strategy Would Miss the Target Completely
Those doctors who have special licences to prescribe heroin show no great enthusiasm. A UK academic expert queried if it was really "treatment" at all and described it as "social problem prescribing", in other words, parking addicts who should be …
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Krokodil in the UK Special Report: No Need to Panic – for Now
One only has to look at the behaviour of those hooked on methadone, another synthetic opioid, to see how potent its addictive properties could be. Some attendees at methadone clinics which require the addict to drink the methadone in front of the …
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Methadone clinic opening in Rutland
RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — The city of Rutland, Vt., is opening a methadone clinic this week. A grand opening ceremony is scheduled Tuesday for the West Ridge Center for Addiction Recovery. Medical technicians on one side of a security window will disperse …
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Addiction ravaging Afghanistan called 'a tsunami'
Cementing the status quo is a lack of treatment options, like methadone substitution, or a holistic plan to address the crisis. “This is a tsunami for our country,” said Dr. Ahmad Fawad Osmani, the director of drug demand reduction for the Ministry of …
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Methadone clinic opening in Rutland
Medical technicians on one side of a security window will disperse individual doses of Methadone and Suboxone and ensure it is consumed on site for patients undergoing opiate withdrawal. The center is expected to serve 400 people by the end of the year.
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San Antonio Drug Detox Presents Video Explaining Services Offered for Drug …
Medical Drug Detox Center in San Antonio is announcing that a new video regarding its services and plans is now available for San Antonio and surrounding cities. Those cities include Live Oak, Balcones Heights, Castroville, New Braunfels, and San Marcos.
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VA's opiate overload feeds addictions
Wave of opiates in Oklahoma: No VA hospital system has prescribed more opiates per patient since 9/11 than the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center in Muskogee. Over the past decade, the hospital and its clinic in Tulsa issued 1.6 opiate prescriptions …
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FDA wants limits on most prescribed painkillers
FDA wants limits on most prescribed painkillers – KTUL.com – Tulsa, Oklahoma – News, Weather & Sports. Member Center: Create Account|; Log In; Manage …. That ease of access has made it many health care professionals' top choice for treating chronic …
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Hundreds of prisoners receiving methadone
"People in jail with drug and alcohol addiction are the vast majority of people in the prison system. "We all know that we're locking up people that commit crimes most often driven by their addictions." Prisoners can continue an existing methadone …
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FDA Approves More Powerful, Pure Hydrocodone Drug
The agency said it approved the pill Zohydro for patients with pain that requires "daily, around-the-clock, long-term treatment" that cannot be addressed with other drugs. Hydrocodone is … They include morphine, heroin, oxycodone, codeine and methadone.
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FDA Wants Limits on Most Prescribed Painkillers
That ease of access has made it many health care professionals' top choice for treating chronic pain, everything from back pain to arthritis to toothaches. In 2011, U.S. doctors wrote more than 131 million prescriptions for hydrocodone, making it the …
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