Posts Tagged ‘overdose death’
Medication an Effective Tool in Fighting Addiction – Boston Globe
Medication an effective tool in fighting addiction – Boston Globe
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Medication an effective tool in fighting addiction
Boston Globe Buprenorphine and methadone are opioids that prevent patients from feeling “dope sick” or overrun by withdrawal symptoms like cold sweats, muscle aches, and anxiety that often lead to relapse. Naltrexone is an opioid blocker that prevents the powerful … |
Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms – Google News
Triangle firefighters, police train to revive drug overdose victims – News & Observer
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Triangle firefighters, police train to revive drug overdose victims
News & Observer The surge in heroin use follows what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called a nationwide epidemic of overdose deaths involving opioid pain relievers such as OxyContin, methadone and hydrocodone. Carrboro is not immune, … If they … |
Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms – Google News
New clinic to provide outpatient treatment to opiate addicts – Northern Virginia Daily
Medication an Effective Tool in Fighting Addiction – Boston Globe
Medication an effective tool in fighting addiction – Boston Globe
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Medication an effective tool in fighting addiction
Boston Globe Buprenorphine and methadone are opioids that prevent patients from feeling “dope sick” or overrun by withdrawal symptoms like cold sweats, muscle aches, and anxiety that often lead to relapse. Naltrexone is an opioid blocker that prevents the powerful … |
Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms – Google News
Triangle firefighters, police train to revive drug overdose victims – News & Observer
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Triangle firefighters, police train to revive drug overdose victims
News & Observer The surge in heroin use follows what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called a nationwide epidemic of overdose deaths involving opioid pain relievers such as OxyContin, methadone and hydrocodone. Carrboro is not immune, … If they … |
Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms – Google News
New clinic to provide outpatient treatment to opiate addicts – Northern Virginia Daily
Triangle Firefighters, Police Train to Revive Drug Overdose Victims – News & Observer
Triangle firefighters, police train to revive drug overdose victims – News & Observer
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Triangle firefighters, police train to revive drug overdose victims
News & Observer The surge in heroin use follows what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called a nationwide epidemic of overdose deaths involving opioid pain relievers such as OxyContin, methadone and hydrocodone. Carrboro is not immune, … If they … |
Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms – Google News
New clinic to provide outpatient treatment to opiate addicts – Northern Virginia Daily
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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. |
Heroin in America: Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment
Heroin in America: Addicts face barriers to treatment
It is true that, unlike withdrawal from dependencies on alcohol or benzodiazepines like Xanax, heroin withdrawal does not kill. But it is so horrible — users feel like their bones are breaking, they sweat and get the chills and shakes, and fluids leak …
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Overdose drug is approved
The federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that use of Narcan has helped to prevent 10,000 opioid overdose deaths. Opioid overdoses can … Narcan sends the victim into immediate withdrawal and reverses the effects of the drug by helping …
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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – SFGate
Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment – SFGate
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Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
SFGate There are about 12,000 addiction treatment programs nationwide, according to McLellan's organization. Of those, about 10 percent are residential facilities, about 80 percent are outpatient programs and about 10 percent are methadone clinics. There's … |
R.I. Senate panel considers bills to aid treatment of drug addiction – The Providence Journal
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R.I. Senate panel considers bills to aid treatment of drug addiction
The Providence Journal Paul V. Jabour, D-Providence, would require coverage for all medications used to treat addiction, including methadone, buprenorphine (Suboxone) and naltrexone (Vivitrol). Practices among insurers vary on Suboxone and Vivitrol, but few cover methadone, … |
Heroin use, and deaths, on the rise in North Carolina – News & Observer
Crimea Side-Effect: Addicts Deprived of Methadone – Hutchinson News
Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone – Hutchinson News
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Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone
Hutchinson News 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 … Crimean side-effect: Heroin addicts deprived of methadone because Russia … |
Methadone Addiction – Google News
Letter: Methadone programs can beat addiction – Newsday
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Letter: Methadone programs can beat addiction
Newsday There is an ongoing misconception that methadone treatment just hooks the addict on a new drug. This is false. Technically, it's a drug, but if it's administered in the correct manner, it has extremely beneficial medicinal qualities. Therefore, I … |
Methadone Addiction – Google News
Crimeans lose their access to methadone and McDonald’s – Quartz