Experts Say Medicine Can Beat Opiates

Experts say medicine can beat opiates
“We know that it takes three things for someone to be successful in recovery from opiate addiction: medication, either Vivitrol or Suboxone; behavioral health treatment, with counseling; and support services,” Demo-Hodgins said. Once addicted to heroin …
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At 21, Recovering Heroin Addict Gets a New Start – Canton Repository

At 21, recovering heroin addict gets a new start – Canton Repository

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.

Methadone+ Recovery – Google News

Community ‘plagued’ by drug trend, officials say at opiate forum – Wicked Local Melrose

Community 'plagued' by drug trend, officials say at opiate forum
Wicked Local Melrose
Funaoile described opioids as "drugs made from opium, either natural or manufactured." This includes heroin, morphine, codeine, methadone, oxycodone (OxyContin, Percocet), hydrocodone (Vicodin), and Fentanyl. "People feel relaxed, feelings of euphoria, …

Methadone+ Recovery – Google News

Pregnant prisoners are losing their shackles – Boston Globe

Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics – Boston Globe

Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe


Boston Globe

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

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Methadone Treatment – Google News

Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe

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

Annexation Bad News for Crimea’s Rehab Patients – RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

Annexation Bad News For Crimea’s Rehab Patients – RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty


RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

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

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Methadone Rehabilitation – Google News

Fatal overdoses continue to rise – Marion Star

Fatal overdoses continue to rise
Marion Star
The walk is in memory of Kim Hamm, who died of a methadone overdose in 2005. People can …. The years before Chrystina Carey's death were filled with overdoses, court dates, time spent in rehabilitation and months spent in prison. Chrystina's oldest …

Methadone Rehabilitation – Google News

Fatal dr overdoses continue rise in ’12 – Coshocton Tribune

Re S (A Child) [2014] EWCC B44 (Fam)

Re S (A Child) [2014] EWCC B44 (Fam)
Her third child was born with drug withdrawal symptoms. …. Commenting that "Historically she has been a very poor engager, missing multiple mental health appointments and repeatedly disengaging from drugs services either by not attending or by using …
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Freeholders Debate Possible Meth Detox Clinic in West Ward – the Trentonian

Freeholders debate possible meth detox clinic in West Ward – The Trentonian

Freeholders debate possible meth detox clinic in West Ward
The Trentonian
TRENTON — The question of whether the former Capital Health Center building will be the new home of a rumored methadone detox clinic was the topic of debate during Tuesday night's Freeholder Meeting. Global Life Enterprises, GLE, who purchased the …

Methadone Detox – Google News

Pregnant prisoners are losing their shackles – Boston Globe

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 …

Methadone Detox – Google News

Experts say medicine can beat opiates – Bucyrus Telegraph Forum