Heroin on the Rise in Iowa, Around Rural Midwest

Heroin on the rise in Iowa, around rural Midwest
She said her son was in and out of rehab all of last year, which proved to be an emotional journey for the entire family. … Her clinic offers methadone, which is a synthetic opiate that allows the user to kick heroin without the cold-turkey …
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Experts worry about effect of dropping hundreds of addicted Mainers from
BANGOR, Maine — On the first day of 2014, hundreds of Mainers were removed from their methadone and Suboxone treatment regimens after losing MaineCare coverage, prompting concern among addiction treatment experts and addicts that many former methadone …
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What Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Sponsor Could Have Done for Him

What Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Sponsor Could Have Done for Him
A haunting writeup in The New York Times Thursday detailed how actor Philip Seymour Hoffman spent his last days after relapsing back into heroin addiction and leaving the home he shared with his partner, Mimi O’Donnell, and their three children. Though he was surrounded by people as the end drew near, the Times piece describes how Hoffman was ultimately “a man who died alone”—which is sadly not …
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Peekskill Thwarted in Attempt to Block Methadone Clinic – the Journal News | LoHud.com

Peekskill thwarted in attempt to block methadone clinic – The Journal News | LoHud.com

Peekskill thwarted in attempt to block methadone clinic
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Lawmakers had sought to vacate a building permit issued in September by a city official to the Renaissance Project — the organization that's renovating the building at 3 Corporate Drive so it can offer opiate treatment and outpatient programs. The

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Heroin overdoses rare in Lebanon County, thanks to methadone clinic – Lebanon Daily News

Heroin overdoses rare in Lebanon County, thanks to methadone clinic
Lebanon Daily News
"I attribute a lot of that to the methadone clinic." Located on the campus of New Perspectives at White Deer Run in North Cornwall Township, the methadone clinic opened in 2006. It offers methadone treatment and counseling for people who want to kick a 

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High-End Red Hook Rehab Center to Offer Free Drug Screening for Locals – DNAinfo

High-End Red Hook Rehab Center to Offer Free Drug Screening for Locals – DNAinfo

High-End Red Hook Rehab Center to Offer Free Drug Screening for Locals
DNAinfo
But after learning that the facility would not prescribe methadone to patients — a synthetic agent that can help injection drug users reduce or stop injecting, according to the Centers for Disease Control — locals were left with a “guarded optimism

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Methadone clinic to open this week – Eagle-Tribune

Methadone clinic to open this week
Eagle-Tribune
He said he learned only after granting the building permit that Spectrum planned to use the building as a clinic for “health care services including drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation.” The Plaistow Road property is in a commercial highway zone in

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Southampton drug dealer Matthew Burgess jailed after selling heroin to … – Daily Echo

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Points to Broader Opioid Drug Epidemic – Washington Post

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death points to broader opioid drug epidemic – Washington Post


Washington Post

Philip Seymour Hoffman's death points to broader opioid drug epidemic
Washington Post
“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
Once an Addict Always an Addict?NJ.com (blog)

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Affordable Care Act expands coverage for addiction treatment – 89.3 KPCC


89.3 KPCC

Affordable Care Act expands coverage for addiction treatment
89.3 KPCC
Then there's outpatient care such as day-treatment; intensive outpatient programs – those are programs that serve a patient three hours a day, at least three days a week; then there's individual and group counseling and medical care for withdrawal

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Critics: LePage's 'War on Drugs' Approach to Addiction Misguided

Critics: LePage's 'War on Drugs' Approach to Addiction Misguided
But to combat Maine's decades-long opiate problem, LePage offered nothing in the way of expanded access to treatment. And as Susan Sharon reports critics say his approach is, at best, … "The average cost of a drug-affected birth in 2009 – this is in …
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