Police Armed to Fight Overdoses
Police armed to fight overdoses
It won't be loaded with bullets, but with Narcan. Narcan blocks the effects of opiate drugs including morphine, heroin and prescription painkillers such as oxycodone, hydrocodone and methadone. It can save an overdose victim and has been used for years …
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Kicking Methadone With Johnny Winter
These notions may seem commonplace, but prevailing notions in the psychotherapeutic community had for too long hewed to a ludicrously outmoded symptomatic understanding of addiction; to quote Anna Freud, writing in 1966: “The behavior of addicts …
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Vancouver: Giving junkies a fix to keep them off the street
Thompson participated in two studies that provided access to the drug, which is administered following the protocol of a traditional treatment, like methadone. There was the North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI) from 2005 to 2008, he says …
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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 Methadone is often stigmatized, he acknowledged, but for some addicts — when it's used in combination with counseling and other treatments — the substitute drug makes a dramatic difference in their lives. “Methadone will allow you to go from a … |
Methadone Addiction – Google News
It takes more than methadone to treat addiction – Boston Globe
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It takes more than methadone to treat addiction
Boston Globe I write as the former director of the methadone clinic originally operated by the Tufts-New England Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry and later by Bay Cove Human Services (“Drug clinic may shut,” Page A1, April 7). Brian MacQuarrie's excellent … |
Methadone Addiction – Google News
City’s methadone funds could cover broader addiction plan – Boston Globe
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 … |
Decorated Bay City soldier says he’s on the cusp of putting opiate addiction … – The Bay City Times
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Decorated Bay City soldier says he's on the cusp of putting opiate addiction …
The Bay City Times 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 him in dealing … |
Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics – Boston Globe
Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe
Boston Globe |
Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Boston Globe Methadone is often stigmatized, he acknowledged, but for some addicts — when it's used in combination with counseling and other treatments — the substitute drug makes a dramatic difference in their lives. “Methadone will allow you to go from a … |
Methadone Addiction – Google News
It takes more than methadone to treat addiction – Boston Globe
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It takes more than methadone to treat addiction
Boston Globe I write as the former director of the methadone clinic originally operated by the Tufts-New England Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry and later by Bay Cove Human Services (“Drug clinic may shut,” Page A1, April 7). Brian MacQuarrie's excellent … |
Methadone Addiction – Google News
City’s methadone funds could cover broader addiction plan – Boston Globe
Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics – Boston Globe
Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe
Boston Globe |
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 … |
New state regulations make heroin treatment challenging – The Patriot Ledger
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New state regulations make heroin treatment challenging
The Patriot Ledger "As written, this could dramatically reduce access to care for patients," Dr. Jacquelyn Starer, president of the Massachusetts Society of Addiction Medicine, said of a proposed bill that seeks to put more oversight on doctors prescribing the heroin … |
Officer: Heroin in Marshalltown just a matter of time – Marshalltown Times Republican
Crimea Side-Effect: Addicts Deprived of Methadone – Washington Times
Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone – Washington Times
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Crimea side–effect: Addicts deprived of methadone
Washington Times SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) – Every morning, Sergei Kislov takes the bus to the rundown outskirts of this port city for the methadone doses that keep him off heroin without suffering withdrawal. Now that Russia has taken over Crimea, the trips are about to … |
Methadone Side Effects – Google News
Officer: Heroin in Marshalltown just a matter of time – Marshalltown Times Republican
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Officer: Heroin in Marshalltown just a matter of time
Marshalltown Times Republican Many times with long term heroin use, the user has to take other drugs to calm the side effects down. One of those drugs is Methadone. "I hope it doesn't become a problem," Tupper said. "We're always on our guard and watching for those kinds of things. |