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The Tiniest Addicts: More Babies Born Dependent on Drugs

The Tiniest Addicts: More babies born dependent on drugs
They are newborns, welcomed into this world by addiction. And according to a study by the … Their moms are chronic opiate users — women who use heroin or pain medications like oxycontin and vicodin while they're pregnant. In some instances, the …
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Supreme Court upholds mother's drug conviction
Evidence of a newborn baby going through drug withdrawal right after birth can be used to establish that the mother consumed illegal drugs, the Idaho Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. Meridian resident Sydney Lorelei Neal was charged in August 2011 with …
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Helping families on the road to recovery
“I call it visible recovery, so rather than arrive at the chemist, pick up methadone and go back home, I wanted the families to hold their heads up and show people that they were getting better, and to stop the stigma of smackheads.” The group is open …
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Drug May Reduce Amount of Overdose Deaths

Drug may reduce amount of overdose deaths
A local program — headed through the Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Stark County — will be distributing Narcan to opiate users.
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Pain Medication Addiction and Withdrawal in Newborns, Part II – Estelle Gauda discusses more effective ways to wean babies off of opioids.

 

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Drug May Reduce Amount of Overdose Deaths

Drug may reduce amount of overdose deaths
A local program — headed through the Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Stark County — will be distributing Narcan to opiate users. email · print · Ed Balint CantonRep.com staff writer …. Aller concurred, adding: "We would never say (to …
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Alcohol and drug use can progress into abuse and even addiction so insidiously that sometimes people do not realize that it has become a problem for them and those around them. The following self-assessment tests can help you determine whether or not …
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New regs for Monday: Fighting drug shortages and regulating tramadol
The Fish and Wildlife Service wants to take a type of bird called the Inyo California towhee off of the endangered species list because its population has bounced back. The agency is also proposing a control order for two types of nonnative birds in …
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Science Homework Help? 10 Points..?

Question by T.H: Science homework help? 10 points..?
The question is:
“Methadone is a drug used to help heroin addicts come off the drug. It is still addictive. Research the effect of methadone.
Explain why it is used and why it is not always successful.”
It’s not me being lazy im gonna research but i would appreciate some help, 10 points for the best answer =D

Best answer:

People on Methadone Can Succeed on Hepatitis C Treatment – Aidsmap

Methadone Symptoms: People on methadone can succeed on hepatitis C treatment – Aidsmap
Opiate users on methadone maintenance therapy can be successfully treated for chronic hepatitis C and can achieve outcomes similar to those of people not on methadone, according to data presented at the 13 th European AIDS Conference last week in Belgrade …
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Methadone Symptoms: Methadone clinic site OK’d – Cecil Whig
The county has approved a building permit for a proposed methadone clinic on East Pulaski Highway near Elkton. The Cecil County Recovery Treatment Center is still seeking state permit and licensing, however, to operate a facility in the former Rose’s Diner …
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Methadone Symptoms: Addicts left to ‘languish and die’ – Canada East
SAINT JOHN – Addicts stuck on a waiting list for methadone treatment are dying, says the executive director of AIDS Saint John. “This has got to stop,” Julie Dingwell says. “And these are just the ones we know about. There’s so much hurt and heartbreak …
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Methadone Symptoms: Drug trial to probe pain reliever’s potential to treat addicts – Calgary Herald
Researchers stumbled on Dilaudid as a candidate for the treatment of heroin addiction after the medication was administered to a small group of subjects in a previous study, which compared the effectiveness of medically prescribed heroin with methadone …
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Kratom as an Opiate Substitute and for Opiate Detoxification

Due to its mode of action, Mitragyna speciosa Kratom could become a potential alternative to methadone, which is now commonly used in the detoxification process from opiates and opioids addiction, especially if its partial binding action on ? opioid receptors is confirmed by further research. The main advantage would be avoiding the replacement of an addiction by another, as this is often the case in opiateaddictiontreatment.

The idea is not really new,since Kratom affects the brain much like opiates, has similar effects and does temper opiate craving, qualities that have been known and made use of by South-East Asian opiate users for quite some time.Alongside its use as a stimulant helping with physical labor, Kratom also has a history of traditional use as an opiate substitute in some parts of South-East Asia, reported in western literature as early as the 19th century.
Many current opiate addicts in Thailand are reported to chew Kratom leaves or drink Kratom extracts when opium or opiates is not available.