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'We'Re All Paying:' Heroin Spreads Misery Across US
'We're all paying:' Heroin spreads misery across US
With heroin use rising across the U.S., The Associated Press queried state health departments, medical examiner's offices and law enforcement agencies across the nation for statistics related to use, overdoses and treatment to obtain a more detailed …
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Ethan's story, Part 1: The slide from drug experimentation to full-blown …
Deval Patrick said that Massachusetts is in the grips of an "epidemic of opiate abuse." For this reason … “It is a crisis bubbling just beneath the surface that may be invisible to many but is already highly visible to law enforcement, medical …
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Boston’s Only Public Methadone Clinic May Shut – Boston Globe
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe Despite assurances that methadone treatment will be uninterrupted if the city clinic closes, the possibility of a shutdown has raised fears among current and former staff that uninsured and indigent clients will be set adrift. Mimi Vitale, a nurse who … |
Methadone Symptoms – Google News
City’s methadone funds could cover broader addiction plan – Boston Globe
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City's methadone funds could cover broader addiction plan
Boston Globe The city clinic, on Frontage Road in the South End, has operated for 40 years, since methadone first won approval as a treatment for heroin addiction. Methadone reduces cravings for heroin and helps stave off withdrawal symptoms. The drug was a giant … BPHS proposes closing sole public methadone clinic |
Boston’s Only Public Methadone Clinic May Shut – Boston Globe
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe Despite assurances that methadone treatment will be uninterrupted if the city clinic closes, the possibility of a shutdown has raised fears among current and former staff that uninsured and indigent clients will be set adrift. Mimi Vitale, a nurse who … |
Methadone Symptoms – Google News
BPHS proposes closing sole public methadone clinic – Daily Free Press (subscription)
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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 … |
Methadone Symptoms – Google News
Mom of 2 Heroin Addicts: ‘This Is Not the Life I Want’ – NBCNews.com
Boston’s Only Public Methadone Clinic May Shut – Boston Globe
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe Despite assurances that methadone treatment will be uninterrupted if the city clinic closes, the possibility of a shutdown has raised fears among current and former staff that uninsured and indigent clients will be set adrift. Mimi Vitale, a nurse who … |
Methadone Symptoms – Google News
Mom of 2 Heroin Addicts: ‘This Is Not the Life I Want’ – NBCNews.com
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Mom of 2 Heroin Addicts: 'This Is Not the Life I Want'
NBCNews.com So as soon as Denise saw Ben using heroin again, she enrolled him in a treatment program covered by that health plan, which provides Ben with Suboxone — a stabilizing medicine similar to methadone that allows recovering addicts to function normally … |
Methadone Symptoms – Google News
Heroin treatment providers address law enforcement – Insurance News Net (press release)
Boston’s Only Public Methadone Clinic May Shut – Boston Globe
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe Despite assurances that methadone treatment will be uninterrupted if the city clinic closes, the possibility of a shutdown has raised fears among current and former staff that uninsured and indigent clients will be set adrift. Mimi Vitale, a nurse who … |
Methadone Symptoms – Google News
At 21, recovering heroin addict starts over – Bellingham Herald
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At 21, recovering heroin addict starts over
Bellingham Herald Lewis completed rehab and started taking methadone. … "They call it 'playing the tape' … which is about thinking about the negative effects, what it's done to you and where it's going to lead — to three different places: jails, institutions and … |
Methadone Symptoms – Google News
Heroin treatment providers address law enforcement – Insurance News Net (press release)
Ralph Garth: Former Junkie Turned Pastor to the Unwanted, the Unloved
Ralph Garth: Former junkie turned pastor to the unwanted, the unloved
A few women carrying babies walked in. When they sat down they played with the kids, …. "I didn't know how or where, but I knew God had saved me to help others like me find their way out of the hell of addiction," Ralph said. After years of working …
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Parents seek naloxone to help their adult kids
… Addiction Program, a Transitions Inc. program in Covington. Wright doesn't know when space will be available for her daughter. She wept as she told Engel her daughter is pregnant and is being treated with methadone. "Is the baby going to be addicted?
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