Opioid Abuse Worries Wakefield, Neighboring Communities – Wicked Local Wakefield

Opioid abuse worries Wakefield, neighboring communities – Wicked Local Wakefield

Opioid abuse worries Wakefield, neighboring communities
Wicked Local Wakefield
Funaoile described opioids as "drugs made from opium, either natural or manufactured." This includes heroin, morphine, codeine, methadone, oxycodone (OxyCotin, Percocet), hydrocodone (Vicodin), and Fentanyl. "People feel relaxed, feelings of euphoria, …

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Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment – STLtoday.com

Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
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The main treatment facility in the southwest Ohio city of Hamilton is Sojourner Recovery Services, which has a six-month wait for beds for men. The nonprofit service has been expanding treatment options, including a new intense outpatient program for …

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Sunday Law Log 4-13 – Asheboro Courier Tribune

Sunday Law Log 4-13
Asheboro Courier Tribune
Linda Rhodes Gulledge, 64, 150 Safie St., Rockingham, was charged with two counts of obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation of a health care provider, five counts of possess with intent to sell/deliver Oxycodone and Methadone, Schedule

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment

Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
While most insurance policies cover up to 30 days in a residential center, nobody actually gets those 30 days, said Tom McLellan, CEO of the nonprofit Treatment Research Institute in Philadelphia who served as deputy drug czar under President Barack …
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Part II: Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
Patty DiRenzo pauses as she uses a computer at her home in Blackwood, N.J., to look online for people seeking help for drug addiction. Her son, Salvatore Marchese, was found dead of a heroin overdose in her car, a needle and a bag of heroin on the …
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Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment across US
Doctors gave him an IV flush to clean out his system, and sent him home. Marchese and his sister stayed up all night calling inpatient treatment centers only to be told: We have no beds. We'll put him on a waiting list. Call back in two weeks. As …
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Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM
Methadone entered the public consciousness in the 1950s when American doctors began using it to treat heroin addiction. Today, about 500,000 people are participating in methadone treatment programs nationwide, including several hundred locally.

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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, …

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It takes more than methadone to treat addiction – Boston Globe

Addiction Begins Easily; Recovery Takes Effort

Addiction begins easily; recovery takes effort
For a nationwide treatment facility locator, visit the national Substance Abuse and Addiction at www.SAMHSA.gov. It all started very innocently. She was 21 years old and just delivered her second … “Methadone treatment is 100 percent voluntary,” said …
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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – STLtoday.com

Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment – STLtoday.com

Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
STLtoday.com
Because withdrawal is not directly deadly, most insurance companies won't pay for inpatient heroin detoxification or rehab, said Anthony Rizzuto, a provider relations representative at Seafield Center, a rehabilitation clinic on Long Island. They

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Ethan’s story, Part 3: ‘Addiction never stops and I will live with this for … – MassLive.com

Ethan's story, Part 3: 'Addiction never stops and I will live with this for
MassLive.com
In some cases, medication is given to help treat initial withdrawal symptoms, especially if an overdose is involved. In the initial triage there are a variety of treatment options, from methadone and suboxone, to Narcotics Anonymous and a mindfulness

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Prescription drugs almost destroyed me – Dallas Morning News

What Is Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome?

What is Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome?
This helps wean the baby off the drug and relieve some withdrawal symptoms. Opiates such as morphine or dilute tincture of opium should probably be used as initial treatment for opiate withdrawal in newborn infants. When a sedative is needed, …
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