At 21, Recovering Heroin Addict Gets a New Start – Canton Repository
At 21, recovering heroin addict gets a new start – Canton Repository
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At 21, recovering heroin addict gets a new start
Canton Repository Lewis completed rehab and started taking methadone. But after six months, he says, he realized he'd replaced one addiction with another, so he entered a detox program. He has been clean since Oct. 12. He's severed all connections with drug-using … |
Pregnant prisoners are losing their shackles – Boston Globe
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Pregnant prisoners are losing their shackles
Boston Globe Once the pregnancy was discovered, Carter was not allowed to stay in the detox program. On the advice of her obstetrician, she started that October on methadone, a synthetic opioid used to treat dependence. Her baby would have to detox from the drug … |
Freeholders debate possible meth detox clinic in West Ward – The Trentonian
Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment
Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment
They either claim that the addict does not meet the "criteria for medical necessity" — that inpatient care would be an inappropriate treatment — or require that the user first try outpatient rehab. "Ninety-nine-point-nine percent of the time, we hear …
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Review: Six Women New Play Festival at the MAT
Here two women (Sallie Walker and Jessica Weaver) contemplate their lives while waiting in a methadone rehab clinic, though neither are there for treatment. The elder — a snarly, homeless combination of King Lear and Granny Clampitt of The Beverly …
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Methadone Given to Girl at Age 4 Started Her Slow Death – Columbus Dispatch
Methadone given to girl at age 4 started her slow death – Columbus Dispatch
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Methadone given to girl at age 4 started her slow death
Columbus Dispatch Four days before her fifth birthday, on Oct. 7, 2010, Amya was sick and having trouble sleeping in her South Side home. In an attempt to make her feel better, a family friend gave her a sip of methadone. The synthetic drug, normally prescribed to … |
Methadone+ Recovery – Google News
At 21, recovering heroin addict gets a new start – Canton Repository
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At 21, recovering heroin addict gets a new start
Canton Repository At 21, recovering heroin addict gets a new start. Cody Lewis was consumed by heroin. Every day was the same: Get up sick if he hadn't used in 12 hours. Figure out how to get money. Then drive 35 miles from his suburban home in Aurora to Chicago to score. |
Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics – Boston Globe
Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe
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Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Boston Globe Methadone is often stigmatized, he acknowledged, but for some addicts — when it's used in combination with counseling and other treatments — the substitute drug makes a dramatic difference in their lives. “Methadone will allow you to go from a … |
Methadone Treatment – Google News
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe Shutting the clinic, which has offered methadone to opiate addicts for 40 years, would mean that hundreds of clients served every day at the Frontage Road site and at a separate counseling center in the South End would be treated by private providers, … |
Methadone Treatment – Google News
Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM
Newport News Pain Doctor Has License Suspended
Newport News pain doctor has license suspended
Board investigations involving another patient revealed "behavior which may be interpreted as romantic involvement" in addition to which Phillips allegedly fronted the chronic pain patient an interest-free loan and then hired her as a contract book …
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Combining the Science of Addiction with the Art of Engagement
A partial agonist to the opioid receptor, it works like methadone, Levounis explains, “but can easily be administered in a physician's office, is virtually impossible to overdose on and is an overall good tool in treating addiction.” Since 2003, he has …
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Annexation Bad News for Crimea’s Rehab Patients – RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Annexation Bad News For Crimea’s Rehab Patients – RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
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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 … |
Methadone Rehabilitation – Google News
Methadone given to girl at age 4 started her slow death – Columbus Dispatch
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Methadone given to girl at age 4 started her slow death
Columbus Dispatch She declined an interview request through Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction officials. Whether she will face additional charges has not been determined, Fulton said. The case will be forwarded to the Franklin County prosecutor's office … |
Methadone Rehabilitation – Google News
RX painkillers drive heroin use in Saugerties – Saugerties Times