Your Letters: Scenario Exists Too Often

Your letters: Scenario exists too often
Methadone maintenance clinics have been around since the 1970s, and despite the myths and stigma around them, similar to the stigma of “being an addict,” the evidence is clear that death rates significantly decrease when a person with opiate … This …
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America's heroine problem is bringing healthcare to its knees
A long period of detox and drug replacement therapy aren't conclusive treatments. Rather, they require greater attention from the … They provide detox centres, treatment outside hospital and methadone clinics. But once these services exhaust their …
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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

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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

Specialists Join Call for Veto of Drug Bill – New York Times

Specialists Join Call for Veto of Drug Bill – New York Times

Specialists Join Call for Veto of Drug Bill
New York Times
Any risks of narcotics to newborns have been exaggerated, according to medical authorities who say that withdrawal symptoms, if they occur, can be treated with no long-term effects. For years, conflicts have swirled in many states over the legal rights

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Kentuckiana faces rising problem of drug abuse and addiction – IU Southeast Horizon

Kentuckiana faces rising problem of drug abuse and addiction
IU Southeast Horizon
“Even if it's just anxiety or depression, things as simple as that, they need help, and that help can be life or death for somebody, whether it be withdrawals or even killing themselves,” Mullins said. He said he also has a family member who struggles

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Jeremy Miller, Star of 'Growing Pains,' Opens Up About Alcoholism

Jeremy Miller, Star Of 'Growing Pains,' Opens Up About Alcoholism
Miller has been appearing on talk shows, discussing his battle with alcohol addiction to promote the drug, Naltrexone, an opiate antagonist, which is supposed to “curb alcohol cravings.” The drug is … It starts with the implant, but you're required …
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Rutgers responds to NJ heroin problem
In 2012, that number grew to 750 — in 2013, it jumped to 800, said Lisa Laitman, director of Rutgers' Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program. “Most of those deaths are young people. … It's going to be quite … Like many, Connor's experience with …
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Recent Jail Deaths Raise Questions About Detox Protocols – Newsworks.org

Recent jail deaths raise questions about detox protocols – Newsworks.org

Recent jail deaths raise questions about detox protocols
Newsworks.org
Detox lasts seven to 10 days, and medical staff are supposed to check in regularly. Staff members do not administer methadone, except in the case of pregnant women, or Suboxone, a newer narcotic used in the treatment of heroin addiction. Bryan Kennedy …

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Kentuckiana faces rising problem of drug abuse and addiction – IU Southeast Horizon

Kentuckiana faces rising problem of drug abuse and addiction
IU Southeast Horizon
The Healing Place is one of the few places in Louisville to offer more than just a 30-day detox program. Because only 20 percent of its funding comes from the public sector and the rest from various partnerships and private donations, it is able to

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Helpful Habit?

Helpful habit?
Rather than choosing to chew nicotine gums or wear nicotine patches, he decided that using e-cigarettes was the most efficient way to manage the symptoms of withdrawal. "The e-cigs allowed me to continue my habit of blowing out smoke from my mouth with …
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