ReSovietizing Crimea? What the Vote Means for the Twin Epidemics of Drug

ReSovietizing Crimea? What the Vote Means for the Twin Epidemics of Drug
While Ukraine and Russia both have large HIV epidemics driven by drug injection, Ukraine has moved successfully to slow the spread of HIV, including with the prescription of the daily medicines methadone and buprenorphine to help patients stop …
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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
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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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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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

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

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

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


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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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Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment – STLtoday.com

Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
STLtoday.com
NEW YORK • As the ranks of heroin users rise, increasing numbers of addicts are looking for help but are failing to find it — because there are no beds in packed facilities, treatment is hugely expensive and insurance companies won't pay for inpatient

Methadone Rehabilitation – Google News

Morgan: Newark-based rehab clinic eyes Jersey City – NJ.com

Doctor's License Suspended After Clinic Raided

Doctor's license suspended after clinic raided
Methadone is commonly used for pain management or to aid in the withdrawal from heroin. One pharmacy refused to fill Christensen's narcotics prescriptions until the doctor filled out a treatment plan for that patient. All 43 treatment plans Christensen …
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Approval of drug is long overdue
Narcon sends the victim into immediate withdrawal and reverses the effects of the drug by helping the person regain ability to breathe. … Narcon can counter overdoses of opiates including heroin, morphine, oxycodone (Oxycontin), methadone …
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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 …

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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
It took four years of being hooked on pain pills and a month of cycling through brutal withdrawal symptoms from a consuming heroin addiction, but Ethan was finally ready to get clean. What would follow throughout his early 20s was a nearly four-year

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