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Oxycodone: The Factors Behind Australians' Increasing Use of 'Hillbilly Heroin'

Oxycodone: The factors behind Australians' increasing use of 'hillbilly heroin'
Both are trends that have the nation's medical community very concerned. "There is a serious problem," Professor … In North America, prescription opioid-dependent clients outnumber heroin-dependent clients among those presenting for methadone …
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BC Prescription Heroin: Addicts Ask For Injunction To Keep Using
The blind study compared the effectiveness of pharmaceutical-grade heroin, known as diacetylmorphine, and oral methadone. Two of the plaintiffs … "The potential use of heroin as a treatment for heroin addiction is still in the investigational stage …
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A new approach to the war on drugs
The number of people admitted for state-funded treatment of prescription opiate abuse has risen 500 percent over the past decade, most sharply between 2012 and 2013, according to a new state report. When addicts can no longer get the prescription drugs …
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Decorated Bay City Soldier Says He’s on the Cusp of Putting Opiate Addiction … – the Bay City Times

Decorated Bay City soldier says he’s on the cusp of putting opiate addiction … – The Bay City Times

Decorated Bay City soldier says he's on the cusp of putting opiate addiction
The Bay City Times
"I paused a few times when I really felt a lot of withdrawal symptoms," he said. "I would pause for a week at a time to let me stabilize where I was at. Ever since I started on methadone over four years ago, I haven'™t gone back to opiates at all. It

Methadone Symptoms – Google News

Part Two: The methadone program is an uphill battle, says Jared Evely – Southern Gazette

Part Two: The methadone program is an uphill battle, says Jared Evely
Southern Gazette
Those people usually turn back to opiates to avoid the withdrawal symptoms. There are currently some 1,000 people taking methadone provincewide, but the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Newfoundland and Labrador refused to release information …

Decorated Bay City Soldier Says He’s on the Cusp of Putting Opiate Addiction … – the Bay City Times

Decorated Bay City soldier says he’s on the cusp of putting opiate addiction … – The Bay City Times

Decorated Bay City soldier says he's on the cusp of putting opiate addiction
The Bay City Times
"I paused a few times when I really felt a lot of withdrawal symptoms," he said. "I would pause for a week at a time to let me stabilize where I was at. Ever since I started on methadone over four years ago, I haven'™t gone back to opiates at all. It

Methadone Symptoms – Google News

New clinic to provide outpatient treatment to opiate addicts – Northern Virginia Daily

New clinic to provide outpatient treatment to opiate addicts
Northern Virginia Daily
The goal of the clinic is to get patients started on methadone as soon as possible to begin treatment, Singer said. Patients must have been addicted to an opiate for more than a year and be experiencing withdrawal symptoms when they contact the clinic.

Decorated Bay City Soldier Says He’s on the Cusp of Putting Opiate Addiction … – the Bay City Times

Decorated Bay City soldier says he’s on the cusp of putting opiate addiction … – The Bay City Times

Decorated Bay City soldier says he's on the cusp of putting opiate addiction
The Bay City Times
"I paused a few times when I really felt a lot of withdrawal symptoms," he said. "I would pause for a week at a time to let me stabilize where I was at. Ever since I started on methadone over four years ago, I haven'™t gone back to opiates at all. It

Methadone Symptoms – Google News

New clinic to provide outpatient treatment to opiate addicts – Northern Virginia Daily

New clinic to provide outpatient treatment to opiate addicts
Northern Virginia Daily
The goal of the clinic is to get patients started on methadone as soon as possible to begin treatment, Singer said. Patients must have been addicted to an opiate for more than a year and be experiencing withdrawal symptoms when they contact the clinic.

Mass. Sees Sharp Increase in Babies Born Addicted

Mass. Sees Sharp Increase In Babies Born Addicted
The increase in drug dependent babies — whose withdrawal symptoms include stiff limbs, sweats, and uncontrollable crying — has hospitals scrambling to care for them. Physicians say there are no federally approved medications or standard procedures to …
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New Clinic to Provide Outpatient Treatment to Opiate Addicts – Northern Virginia Daily

New clinic to provide outpatient treatment to opiate addicts – Northern Virginia Daily

New clinic to provide outpatient treatment to opiate addicts
Northern Virginia Daily
The goal of the clinic is to get patients started on methadone as soon as possible to begin treatment, Singer said. Patients must have been addicted to an opiate for more than a year and be experiencing withdrawal symptoms when they contact the clinic.

Methadone Symptoms – Google News

Decorated Bay City soldier says he’s on the cusp of putting opiate addiction … – The Bay City Times

Decorated Bay City soldier says he's on the cusp of putting opiate addiction
The Bay City Times
"I paused a few times when I really felt a lot of withdrawal symptoms," he said. "I would pause for a week at a time to let me stabilize where I was at. Ever since I started on methadone over four years ago, I haven'™t gone back to opiates at all. It