Not-So-Quick Fix
Not-So-Quick Fix
Both were opioid dependent, and both were criticized in the wake of their deaths for bad decision making and for failing to summon the willpower to prevent a relapse. According to … That reality has made buprenorphine—an opioid partial agonist that …
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Decorated Bay City soldier says he's on the cusp of putting opiate addiction …
In January 2010, he started taking methadone six days a week at a clinic in Saginaw County's Carrollton Township, hoping to get control of, and then exorcise, his addiction. He's also a medical marijuana patient and says pot has aided … "œWhat it …
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Triangle firefighters, police train to revive drug overdose victims
The drug counteracts the effects of heroin, OxyContin and other powerful painkillers and has been routinely used by ambulance crews and emergency rooms in the U.S. and other countries for decades. But in the past few years … The surge in heroin use …
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