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Fatal addiction: Britain's 6200 state-sponsored drug addicts hooked on heroin …
Yet half of councils have had funding for residential drug treatment –seen by many as more effective than methadone – cut in recent years. The NTA's replacement, Public Health England, defended the number of long-term methadone users. 'Heroin addiction …
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Methadone clinic has steady stream of clients
“It's remained pretty steady.” The clinic provides replacement drugs to just under 200 people in northern Arizona. Most of the clients live in Flagstaff. The clients are either prescribed methadone, which is dispensed as a liquid. Or, they are …
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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 … Both belong to a family of …
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Methadone transportation costs rack up huge tab for taxpayers
Washington has only 13 clinics in the state that allow Medicaid to pay for methadone. For-profit clinics do not take Medicaid in most cases, so taxpayers have to shell out money to drive patients right by a methadone clinic that's closer all because of …
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Shelter From the Storms
WHEN the floodwaters rose around New Orleans hospitals after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, doctors wondered whom to rescue first. Sick babies? … Doctors' offices, pharmacies and dialysis and methadone clinics were inundated or lost electricity …
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FDA approves more powerful, pure hydrocodone drug
The agency said Friday it approved the extended-release pill Zohydro ER for patients with pain that requires "daily, around-the-clock, long-term treatment" that cannot be treated with other drugs. Hydrocodone is currently … The panel of pain …
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FDA Approves More Powerful, Pure Hydrocodone Drug
The panel of pain specialists voted 11-2, with one abstention, against approving the drug, questioning the need for a new form of one of most widely-abused prescription drugs in U.S. … Others include morphine, heroin, oxycodone, codeine and methadone.
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FDA wants limits on most prescribed painkillers
The FDA did not issue a formal announcement about its decision, which has long been sought by many patient advocates, doctors and state and federal lawmakers. For decades, hydrocodone has … That ease of access has made it many health care …
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NYT: FDA seeks tighter control on prescriptions for class of painkillers
Doctors use the medications to treat pain from injuries, arthritis, dental extractions and other problems. The change would reduce … can be legally prescribed. The group includes painkillers like oxycodone, the active ingredient in OxyContin …
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Nine Things Chronic–Pain Specialists Think Hospitalists Need To Know
The search for an etiology and treatment for chronic pain should not end, even if a patient is labeled with “chronic pain syndrome.” The patient … A desperate chronic pain patient may self-escalate their methadone without proper insight into the …
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FDA Urging a Tighter Rein on Painkillers
Schedule II drugs are those drugs with the highest potential for abuse that can be legally prescribed. They include painkillers like oxycodone — the active ingredient in OxyContin — methadone and fentanyl, as well as Adderall and Ritalin, which are …
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NRV pain doctor begins serving 33-month prison sentence
On the other hand, she was on probation for a 2008 health care fraud conviction and had lost her DEA prescribing permit but continued to prescribe drugs, the judge said. Cheek also failed throughout her trial and … The death rate from four commonly …
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