Methadone Safety: New Clinical Practice Guideline From American Pain Society

Methadone safety: New clinical practice guideline from American Pain Society
Improved physician education and patient counseling about methadone safety and ECG monitoring to identify patients at high risk for cardiac problems will lead to safer use of the medication, according to the American Pain Society's Clinical Practice Guideline on Methadone Safety, published this week in The Journal of Pain.
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HHS calls health care providers to expand use of medications to treat opioid addiction, reduce overdose deaths
A national response to the epidemic of prescription opioid overdose deaths was outlined yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine by leaders of agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics – Boston Globe

Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe


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Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Boston Globe
Many patients take methadone, an opiate that's safer than heroin, for months or years. It doesn't cure addiction, but relieves withdrawal symptoms and allows many people to function and work without getting high. While Habit OPCO follows up with

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Methadone Abuse – Google News

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM
Methadone entered the public consciousness in the 1950s when American doctors began using it to treat heroin addiction. Today, about 500,000 people are participating in methadone treatment programs nationwide, including several hundred locally.

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Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe

Oregon Drug Deaths: More People Dying From Meth Use, Cocaine-Related Deaths … – the Oregonian

Oregon drug deaths: More people dying from meth use, cocaine-related deaths … – The Oregonian

Oregon drug deaths: More people dying from meth use, cocaine-related deaths
The Oregonian
Methadone comes in two forms: a liquid and pill. The liquid is used at methadone centers, prescribed to recovering addicts to help prevent or reduce the withdrawal symptoms from halting heroin use. The pill is used for chronic pain. "The liquid form is

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Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms – Google News

Suboxone: A Double-Edged Sword – The Epoch Times

Suboxone: A Double-Edged Sword
The Epoch Times
Unlike methadone, another prescription opioid used to treat narcotic drug addiction, which requires daily visits to a public clinic, Suboxone can be prescribed in weekly doses, making it far more convenient for patients. In addition, methadone produces

Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms – Google News

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

Crimea Side-Effect: Addicts Deprived of Methadone – U-T San Diego

Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone – U-T San Diego

Crimea sideeffect: Addicts deprived of methadone
U-T San Diego
Across the Black Sea peninsula, some 800 heroin addicts and other needle-drug users take part in methadone programs, seen as an important part of efforts to curb HIV infections by taking the patients away from hypodermic needles that can spread the …

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Not-So-Quick Fix – LA Magazine

Not-So-Quick Fix
LA Magazine
That reality has made buprenorphine—an opioid partial agonist that can relieve withdrawal symptoms without producing the same high or dangerous side effects as full opioids—an important weapon in the fight against drug addiction. When combined with

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HHS Calls Health Care Providers to Expand Use of Medications to Treat Opioid … – News-Medical.net

HHS calls health care providers to expand use of medications to treat opioid … – News-Medical.net

HHS calls health care providers to expand use of medications to treat opioid
News-Medical.net
"When prescribed and monitored properly, medications such as methadone, buprenorphine, or naltrexone are safe and cost-effective components of opioid addiction treatment," said lead author and NIDA director Nora D. Volkow, M.D. "These medications can

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Oregon drug deaths: More people dying from meth use, cocaine-related deaths … – The Oregonian

Oregon drug deaths: More people dying from meth use, cocaine-related deaths
The Oregonian
Methadone comes in two forms: a liquid and pill. The liquid is used at methadone centers, prescribed to recovering addicts to help prevent or reduce the withdrawal symptoms from halting heroin use. The pill is used for chronic pain. "The liquid form is

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Methadone Symptoms – Google News

Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM
Would seem to make more sense to substitute medical marijuana for methadone to treat addicts. Methadone can be just as lethal as the drug for which it's being substituted. I saw far more economic and personal damage from alcohol than from pot during my …

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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
BPHS proposes closing sole public methadone clinicDaily Free Press (subscription)
Boston officials looking to transfer operations of only city-run methadone clinicMassLive.com

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