Ease Way to Share Addiction Success Stories Without Stigma
Ease way to share addiction success stories without stigma
Medical treatment is effective; however, people who need and take methadone, buprenorphine, or naltrexone — which effectively block biological craving for opiates — face stigma and discrimination. As a physician, I know that treatment is imperfect …
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Drug overdose deaths in R.I. in 2014 are running at twice the 2013 rate
Rebecca Boss, the state's administrator of Behavioral Healthcare Services, called for an end not just to the stigma attached to addiction, but to the stigma attached to addiction recovery through the use of such drugs as methadone or Suboxone …
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Heroin Users: Not From Another Planet – Huffington Post
Heroin Users: Not From Another Planet – Huffington Post
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Heroin Users: Not From Another Planet
Huffington Post I work at Evergreen Treatment Services, a methadone clinic in Seattle. As a physician assistant (PA) for 14 years, I've encountered many both inside and outside the medical communities who don't know what that means and who also think that people who … |
Methadone Treatment – Google News
Authors’ reply – British Journal of Psychiatry
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Authors' reply
British Journal of Psychiatry Newman rightly draws attention to the effectiveness of appropriately delivered methadone treatment for many people with heroin addiction worldwide over the past half-century. Our economic evaluation1 and the preceding report on the main findings from … |
“I Felt Like an Old Fool”: Poor Decisions and the Loss of a Medical Career – Pain Medicine News
“I Felt Like an Old Fool”: Poor Decisions and the Loss of a Medical Career – Pain Medicine News
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“I Felt Like an Old Fool”: Poor Decisions and the Loss of a Medical Career
Pain Medicine News The board's action resulted in a number of my patients going through significant opioid withdrawal, and five of them were hospitalized. … Several had been forced to go to the local methadone clinic and lie about being addicted, just to get pain … |
Titan Pharmaceuticals Announces Agreement in Principle on Path Forward for Probuphine Clinical Study
Titan Pharmaceuticals Announces Agreement in Principle on Path Forward for Probuphine Clinical Study
Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the company and its partner, Braeburn Pharmaceuticals, have agreed in principle with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the design of a clinical study …
Methadone Treatment – Yahoo News Search Results
UPDATED: Pharmacist Said New Protocols Prevent Theft
UPDATED: Pharmacist said new protocols prevent theft
The panel expressed concern this wasn't the first time Reich had been disciplined by the college. In 2007, Reich was reprimanded for improperly dispensing methadone to clinics in Sudbury and Thunder Bay. His certificate of registration was suspended …
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50 Bags of Heroin Found in Philip Seymour Hoffman's Apartment:report 0
50 bags of heroin found in Philip Seymour Hoffman's apartment:report 0
Authorities found other drugs, including a medication for high blood pressure that is also used for treating opiate withdrawal, the sources said. Police were trying to determine the source of the substance that apparently killed Hoffman and whether it …
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