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Parents Using Methadone to Pacify Children, Charity Warns – the Guardian

Parents using methadone to pacify children, charity warns – The Guardian


The Guardian

Parents using methadone to pacify children, charity warns
The Guardian
Some children are being given methadone by parents with a serious drug addiction to "pacify" them, warns a charity working with families coping with narcotic abuse. In the first detailed examination of the risks to children of drug treatment

Methadone Abuse – Google News

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

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Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe

Reno Mayoral Candidate Died of Accidental Overdose

Reno mayoral candidate died of accidental overdose
Authorities say a 48-year-old Reno man who was running for mayor died of an accidental drug overdose.
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Wisconsin babies face new epidemic
As heroin tightens its grip on Wisconsin, more attention is being paid to its youngest victims — babies born exposed to that drug and other opiates. 
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Hallucinating Away a Heroin Addiction
This junkie is about to begin a three-day, neo-African, sometimes-terrifying, ritualistic trip. Can it help her get clean?
Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms – Yahoo News Search Results

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Highlighting the Dangers of Methadone – KRNV My News 4

Highlighting the dangers of methadone – KRNV My News 4

Highlighting the dangers of methadone
KRNV My News 4
(KRNV & MyNews4.com) -The accidental overdose death of Reno mayoral candidate Tony Perri is highlighting the dangers of methadone. Experts say methadone is used as a pain reliever, but more commonly it's used to reduce withdrawal symptoms in …
Reno mayoral candidate Perri died of accidental methadone overdoseThe Tribune

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Kratom leaf is a legal high, but for how long? – Q13 FOX

Kratom leaf is a legal high, but for how long?
Q13 FOX
The products are meant to mimic the effects of better-known drugs like marijuana and methadone but can be dangerous. DEA officials said using synthetic drugs is like playing Russian roulette because the ingredients and dosages vary so much from package …

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Target2: Heroin Epidemic, a Lengthy Recovery

Target2: Heroin Epidemic, A Lengthy Recovery
But our Target 2 investigation discovered many addicts who want to get better are priced out. There are more than a dozen treatment options available in Northeast Wisconsin ranging from in and out-patient programs to dosing of methadone which is a drug …
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Her Newborn In Withdrawal, A Young Mother Faces Her Own Recovery
“This is my second son, my first son was also born when I was on methadone, so I had an idea of how it worked.” “It” is neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS, and it's a collection of symptoms a baby develops going into withdrawal from the opioids his …
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Reno Mayoral Candidate Perri Died of Accidental Methadone Overdose – the Republic

Reno mayoral candidate Perri died of accidental methadone overdose – The Republic

Reno mayoral candidate Perri died of accidental methadone overdose
The Republic
Methadone is prescribed to relieve pain and can be used to treat withdrawal symptoms from opiate drugs. Perri told the Reno Gazette-Journal earlier this year that he had battled a past cocaine addiction but had been sober for a decade. He intended to

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Addicts benefit from Vancouver’s medicinal marijuana dispensaries – Straight.com


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Addicts benefit from Vancouver's medicinal marijuana dispensaries
Straight.com
What they found, according to a May 2013 paper published by the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, is that marijuana could actually be beneficial to methadone users, decreasing opiate-withdrawal symptoms in MMT patients. “The present findings …

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The Truth About Heroin: Not Just A ‘Tenement’ Drug Or What You’ve Seen On … – Huffington Post UK

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

and more »

Methadone Abuse – Google News

Parents using methadone to pacify children, charity warns – The Guardian


The Guardian

Parents using methadone to pacify children, charity warns
The Guardian
Some children are being given methadone by parents with a serious drug addiction to "pacify" them, warns a charity working with families coping with narcotic abuse. In the first detailed examination of the risks to children of drug treatment

Methadone Abuse – Google News

Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe