Can Hospital Adjust to Provide Detox-Like Care? – the Recorder

Can hospital adjust to provide detox-like care? – The Recorder

Can hospital adjust to provide detox-like care?
The Recorder
But opioid withdrawal management in hospitals is, well, haphazard. Tessier reluctantly uses the phrase “Wild West.” Opioid detox facilities often ease the patient off their drug(s) with tapered doses of buprenorphine or methadone, tailored opioids, and …

Methadone Detox – Google News

Her Newborn In Withdrawal, A Young Mother Faces Her Own Recovery – Rhode Island Public Radio

Her Newborn In Withdrawal, A Young Mother Faces Her Own Recovery
Rhode Island Public Radio
Jonathan has been on a steadily decreasing dose of morphine to help him withdraw safely from the methadone he was exposed to in the womb. Ellen takes methadone to curb cravings and keep from going into withdrawal herself, from heroin. It's an opioid …

Methadone Detox – Google News

Insured often wrestle with insurers to get longer rehab care – The Recorder

Heroin: Direct Route to the Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Heroin: Direct Route to the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
It was first manufactured in 1898 by the German Bayer Pharmaceutical company as a tuberculosis treatment and, ironically, as a remedy for morphine addiction. In the mid-19th century, opium … Methadone was developed in 1937 as a treatment for heroin …
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Kratom Madness: How a Thai Tree Restarted Plant Prohibition
… they'd ever heard of kratom. And if they believe what the mainstream media has to say about this natural remedy, it's no wonder several states have considered or passed laws banning kratom or kratom extracts. … A professor at the University of …
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Target2: Heroin Epidemic, a Lengthy Recovery – WBAY

Target2: Heroin Epidemic, A Lengthy Recovery – WBAY

Target2: Heroin Epidemic, A Lengthy Recovery
WBAY
There are more than a dozen treatment options available in Northeast Wisconsin ranging from in and out-patient programs to dosing of methadone which is a drug used to wean people off heroin. All this though comes at a price even counselors say is scary.

Methadone+ Recovery – Google News

Rehab, recovery programs absent or overwhelmed – The Recorder

Rehab, recovery programs absent or overwhelmed
The Recorder
Opioid addicts often suffer from dehydration or malnutrition, but there is no weaning the inmate off their drug of choice or even their treatment drugs — Suboxone or methadone — as would take place in an outside detox facility. Those severely

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Methadone+ Recovery – Google News

Drug companies brought on scourge – Rutland Herald

New Program Launches for Pregnant Women Battling Addiction

New program launches for pregnant women battling addiction
Doctors in Thunder Bay aim to reduce the stigma that prevents pregnant women from seeking help for addiction.
Methadone Treatment – Yahoo News Search Results

Heroin's New Hometown

Heroin's New Hometown
You've got families falling apart,” said William A. Fusco, the director of Dynamic Youth Community, a drug-treatment center in Brooklyn whose clients include many young Staten Islanders. “You've got people who have got no idea what to do, and they're …
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Senate Dems unveil bill package to fight heroin epidemic
The bills, if passed, would enact stiffer penalties for selling opioids; expand insurance coverage for abuse treatment facilities; supply first responders with anti-overdose drug access; create community rehabilitation services and generate public …
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Annexation Bad News for Crimea’s Rehab Patients – RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

Annexation Bad News For Crimea’s Rehab Patients – RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty


RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

Annexation Bad News For Crimea's Rehab Patients
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
… we'll end up stealing again and going to jail." To avoid withdrawal and a possible relapse, Crimean rehab patients are now left with two options: relocate to mainland Ukraine to continue their methadone therapy or quit cold turkey in a Russia-run

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Methadone Rehabilitation – Google News

Target2: Heroin Epidemic, A Lengthy Recovery – WBAY

Target2: Heroin Epidemic, A Lengthy Recovery
WBAY
There are more than a dozen treatment options available in Northeast Wisconsin ranging from in and out-patient programs to dosing of methadone which is a drug used to wean people off heroin. All this though comes at a price even counselors say is scary.

Methadone Rehabilitation – Google News

Rehab, recovery programs absent or overwhelmed – The Recorder