Addicted to Profits: Insurance Companies Adjust Coverage of Methadone Clinics – Daily Free Press (Subscription)
Addicted to Profits: Insurance companies adjust coverage of methadone clinics – Daily Free Press (subscription)
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Addicted to Profits: Insurance companies adjust coverage of methadone clinics
Daily Free Press (subscription) With lives at stake, methadone clinics play an integral role in treating opiate addicts. However, the actions of city and state government, insurance companies and private equity firms may impose financial difficulties on patients seeking opiate … |
Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe
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Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Boston Globe Many patients take methadone, an opiate that's safer than heroin, for months or years. It doesn't cure addiction, but relieves withdrawal symptoms and allows many people to function and work without getting high. While Habit OPCO follows up with … |
Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe
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Boston to shutter drug treatment facility
Boston Globe In a 6-to-1 vote last week, Boston's Board of Health decided to end more than 40 years of city-run methadone treatment, which uses the narcotic to wean addicts from heroin and other opiates. The addiction services will now be handled by Community … |
Waiting lists for addiction treatment grow, as region sees increase in heroin use – Elmira Star-Gazette
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Waiting lists for addiction treatment grow, as region sees increase in heroin use
Elmira Star-Gazette Reviews published in November and commissioned by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found treatments using methadone and buprenorphine help patients reduce their use of illicit opioid drugs. Both of those drugs are … Health Officials Call for Better Access to Addiction Treatment |
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