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 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 … |
Medication an effective tool in fighting addiction – Boston Globe
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Medication an effective tool in fighting addiction
Boston Globe In fact, the City of Boston recently announced plans to close the Public Health Commission's Frontage Road methadone clinic, widely regarded as an outstanding and integral part of the addiction treatment landscape in Boston. Even some doctors have … |
Combat vets battle an enemy within: Addiction – Philly.com
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Combat vets battle an enemy within: Addiction
Philly.com In 12 years after 9/11, prescriptions of four primary opiate painkillers – oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, and methadone – rose 270 percent at VA hospitals, according to internal VA records obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting. Last … |
Medical Marijuana Policy and My Seder Table – Huffington Post
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Medical Marijuana Policy and My Seder Table
Huffington Post It establishes three significant categories for drugs that are called "schedules" determined by a drug's potential for abuse, accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and accepted safety levels for the drug. Schedule I drugs are deemed … |
Bain Capital company buys Brattleboro methadone clinic – vtdigger.org
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Bain Capital company buys Brattleboro methadone clinic
vtdigger.org The Brattleboro treatment center will be obligated to fulfill any contracts or grants of Habit OPCO, said Barbara Cimaglio, deputy commissioner for alcohol and drug abuse programs at the Vermont Department of Health. “We do not expect any change in … |
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