Program Gives Volunteers Naloxone Kits to Reverse Overdoses
Program gives volunteers naloxone kits to reverse overdoses
Naloxone, also known as Narcan, works by attaching to the same central nervous system cell receptors as drugs like heroin, morphine and oxycodone latch onto. "It targets the same receptors that the opiates would target, so it basically displaces them," …
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Report: State Found Violations at Methadone Clinic – Greenwich Time
Report: State found violations at methadone clinic – Greenwich Time
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Report: State found violations at methadone clinic
Greenwich Time The Republican-American reports (http://bit.ly/1grvgAt ) that in dozens of unannounced inspections state Department of Public Health agents found repeated violations by New Era Rehabilitation Center clinics in Bridgeport and New Haven between 2004 and … |
Penn Program Helps Formerly Incarcerated Re-Enter Society – the Daily Pennsylvanian
Penn program helps formerly incarcerated re-enter society – The Daily Pennsylvanian
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Penn program helps formerly incarcerated re-enter society
The Daily Pennsylvanian Although he had stopped using heroin eight years ago, he was still addicted to methadone, a longer-lasting, legal substance used as a substitute for heroin. But he worried that the emotional struggle of a complete detox would lead him back to heroin … |
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And of course not all maintenance programs are created equal, and the opiate addiction drugs we already use regularly, such as methadone, have their problems, too, including being difficult to detox from. Many neighborhoods dislike having methadone …
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Penn program helps formerly incarcerated re-enter society
… he was still addicted to methadone, a longer-lasting, legal substance used as a substitute for heroin. But he worried that the emotional struggle of a complete detox would lead him back to heroin, so he decided that he needed to return to jail to …
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Police Recover Methadone Bottles During Traffic Stop – Burbank Leader
Police recover methadone bottles during traffic stop – Burbank Leader
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Police recover methadone bottles during traffic stop
Burbank Leader Police recover methadone bottles during traffic stop. print. By Alene Tchekmedyian, [email protected]. February 18, 2014 | 7:22 p.m.. Police recovered 32 bottles of methadone during a traffic stop on Saturday afternoon, authorities said. |
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Heroin incidents increasing – Beloit Daily News
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Heroin incidents increasing
Beloit Daily News Tilley said the addiction usually begins with the use of related opiates such as the prescription drugs oxycodone, methadone, suboxone and morphine. Methadone and subaxone, sometimes used in heroin recovery programs, are being sold along with the … |
Methadone+ Recovery – Google News
New Allegan County veterans court helps offenders break from crime – HollandSentinel.com
Maine House Votes to Restore State Aid to Municipalities
Maine House votes to restore state aid to municipalities
Lawrence Lockman, R-Amherst, that would have paid for revenue sharing by eliminating state funding for general assistance and MaineCare funding for methadone treatments, podiatry and screening for sexually transmitted diseases. An amendment from …
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Poll: Drug use by Mass. youth exceeds nation
The state's youth illicit drug use rate is higher than Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire and New York. Youth in Rhode Island and Vermont used illicit drugs at rates over 15 percent. Among 12 to 17-year-olds … Vermont's number of people enrolled in …
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