BPHS Proposes Closing Sole Public Methadone Clinic – Daily Free Press (Subscription)
BPHS proposes closing sole public methadone clinic – Daily Free Press (subscription)
BPHS proposes closing sole public methadone clinic
Daily Free Press (subscription) Methadone is a synthetic narcotic that is used to reduce the craving for opiates, such as heroin, and the effects of withdrawal symptoms. In a state where heroin addiction, which methadone is used to combat, has caused 185 deaths in the past four … |
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe Boston health officials are poised to close the city's only public methadone clinic at a time when heroin overdoses, which methadone is used to combat, are rising dramatically across the state. Shutting the clinic, which has offered methadone to opiate … |
Doctor’s license suspended after clinic raided – Anchorage Daily News
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Doctor's license suspended after clinic raided
Anchorage Daily News HAMILTON, Mont. — A state board has indefinitely suspended the medical license of a Florence physician after two of his patients who were prescribed methadone died from overdoses. Dr. Chris A. Christensen prescribed his patients "excess pills" in … Raided Florence doctor's medical license suspended |
Tracing the US heroin surge back south of the border as Mexican cannabis … – Washington Post
Washington Post |
Tracing the US heroin surge back south of the border as Mexican cannabis …
Washington Post They have targeted areas with the worst prescription pill abuse, sending heroin pushers to “set up right outside the methadone clinics,” one DEA agent said. Some new heroin users begin by snorting the drug. But like addicts of synthetic painkillers who … |
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