We Can Prevent Fatal ODs Like Hoffman's

We can prevent fatal ODs like Hoffman's
Offer methadone and buprenorphine to those with opioid addiction: Methadone and buprenorphine have been the gold-standard treatment for opioid addiction for decades. These replacement therapies can allow people to live … Virtually every published …
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Who's been in the courts?
PATRICK Rutherford-Brown, 58, of New Road, Belper, was fined £37, and ordered to pay £85 with a £20 victim surcharge for possessing a controlled drug of Class A, methadone, on October 14. DARRALL Jim Meakin, 45, ….. CHRISTOPHER Spence, 28, of …
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Satel: What Philip Seymour Hoffman Can Teach Us About Breaking the Cycle of … – Newsday

Satel: What Philip Seymour Hoffman can teach us about breaking the cycle of … – Newsday


Newsday

Satel: What Philip Seymour Hoffman can teach us about breaking the cycle of
Newsday
If he moved from prescription pills to heroin (he entered a rehabilitation program last May after a reported reliance on painkillers led him back to heroin briefly), he was following a familiar path. Many individuals who have become addicted to

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Methadone Rehabilitation – Google News

Ocean County’s First Drug Detox Facility to Open in Toms River – Patch.com

Ocean County's First Drug Detox Facility to Open in Toms River
Patch.com
Officials are hoping a new, privately-owned detox center, where patients usually stay for five to seven days before being placed in a long-term rehabilitation facility, will be a key piece of the puzzle to getting help for those who are addicted. "It's

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The Heroin and Opioid Epidemics – Washington Post (Blog)

The heroin and opioid epidemics – Washington Post (blog)


Washington Post (blog)

The heroin and opioid epidemics
Washington Post (blog)
“In the storm of narcotic withdrawal, any opiate port will do,” said Jim Hall, an epidemiologist at Nova Southeastern University who studies addiction. Prescription painkillers may also grease a slippery slope toward a relapse for former heroin addicts

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Methadone+ Withdrawal – Google News

100 Americans Die of Drug Overdoses Each Day. How Do We Stop That? – Washington Post (Blog)

100 Americans die of drug overdoses each day. How do we stop that? – Washington Post (blog)

100 Americans die of drug overdoses each day. How do we stop that?
Washington Post (blog)
Fatal overdoses from opiate medications such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methadone have quadrupled since 1999, accounting for an estimated 16,651 deaths in 2010. Earlier this …. We'll detox you of everything, and you'll come back a new man.”.

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Methadone Detox – Google News

Little memory of dragging police officer along road, court told – Daily Advertiser

Little memory of dragging police officer along road, court told
Daily Advertiser
A day after his arrest on October 7, 2012, for a home invasion, Mackay was taken to Wagga Base Hospital when he started detoxing having consumed ice, Xanax, methadone and alcohol. At the hospital, he pushed two police officers aside before running to 

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Study Finds Evidence Showing Supported Employment Works – Psychiatric News

Study Finds Evidence Showing Supported Employment Works – Psychiatric News

Study Finds Evidence Showing Supported Employment Works
Psychiatric News
The 14 services to be included in the review are behavioral management for children and adolescents, trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy for children and adolescents, recovery housing, residential treatment for individuals with substance use

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Methadone+ Recovery – Google News

Vancouver forum touts alternatives to Insite – Vancouver Courier


Vancouver Courier

Vancouver forum touts alternatives to Insite
Vancouver Courier
Although Berner said abstinence is the best method to break a drug habit, he pointed out that prescription drug alternatives such as methadone help with recovery. “Many people don't use that but there's a lot of ways to get clean,” he said. “We're not

Methadone+ Recovery – Google News

Recovering addicts share cautionary tales at heroin forum – FOX 9 News

Sioux Falls Heroin Addict on Road to Recovery

Sioux Falls Heroin Addict On Road To Recovery
The Sioux Falls Treatment Center provides its patients with a daily dose of the pain killer methadone. The methadone blocks the euphoric high of heroin, so getting that rush no longer motivates the addict, making it easier to break the potentially …
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