City’s Methadone Funds Could Cover Broader Addiction Plan – Boston Globe

City’s methadone funds could cover broader addiction plan – Boston Globe

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

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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

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Painkillers Might Not Be Right Prescription For Veterans – KPBS


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Painkillers Might Not Be Right Prescription For Veterans
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… drug problem. Meanwhile at the Department of Veterans Affairs, prescriptions for hydrocodone, methadone, morphine and oxycodone — all widely used and highly addictive painkillers, or opioids — had surged 270 percent, while its patient pool had

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