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Rise in Heroin Use Leads to More Patients at Treatment Centers – Insurance News Net (Press Release)

Rise in heroin use leads to more patients at treatment centers – Insurance News Net (press release)

Rise in heroin use leads to more patients at treatment centers
Insurance News Net (press release)
Some patients use methadone as a maintenance strategy, remaining on the drug for years, but functioning in society. Others taper their methadone use and eventually leave the drug behind. But addiction is never cured, House said. "Because of the stigma 

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Littlest victims of a Florida drug binge – Bradenton Herald


Bradenton Herald

Littlest victims of a Florida drug binge
Bradenton Herald
In late 2011, DCF was told Jerrell was abusing methadone, Xanax and pain medications. Jerrell had been charged with driving while under the influence of narcotics, a report said. Though he had a "history of drug- and violence-related criminal charges," 

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Officials: Time for a Bennington Drug Treatment Center or Methadone Clinic

Officials: Time for a Bennington drug treatment center or methadone clinic
BENNINGTON — The time may be ripe for a drug treatment center to come to Bennington, according to a state senator and town leaders.
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Officials: Time for a Bennington Drug Treatment Center or Methadone Clinic – Brattleboro Reformer

Officials: Time for a Bennington drug treatment center or methadone clinic – Brattleboro Reformer

Officials: Time for a Bennington drug treatment center or methadone clinic
Brattleboro Reformer
The event was planned by Rutland Herald Reporter Patrick McArdle as a way of letting local leaders from the town, police, schools and health care system respond to an article in the New York Times featuring heroin addiction in town. The article

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Rise in heroin use leads to more patients at treatment centers – StarNewsOnline.com

Rise in heroin use leads to more patients at treatment centers
StarNewsOnline.com
Some patients use methadone as a maintenance strategy, remaining on the drug for years, but functioning in society. Others taper their methadone use and eventually leave the drug behind. But addiction is never cured, House said. "Because of the stigma 

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Methadone Abuse – Google News

Officials: Time for a Bennington Drug Treatment Center or Methadone Clinic – Brattleboro Reformer

Officials: Time for a Bennington drug treatment center or methadone clinic – Brattleboro Reformer

Officials: Time for a Bennington drug treatment center or methadone clinic
Brattleboro Reformer
The event was planned by Rutland Herald Reporter Patrick McArdle as a way of letting local leaders from the town, police, schools and health care system respond to an article in the New York Times featuring heroin addiction in town. The article

Methadone Abuse – Google News

Innocents Lost: Drugs cause scores of child deaths every year in Florida – Tampabay.com

Innocents Lost: Drugs cause scores of child deaths every year in Florida
Tampabay.com
In late 2011, DCF was told Jerrell was abusing methadone, Xanax and pain medications. Jerrell had been charged with driving while under the influence of narcotics, a report said. Though he had a "history of drug- and violence-related criminal charges," 

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Methadone Abuse – Google News

Innocent Lost: Izabella Whitson – Bradenton Herald

Innocent Lost: Izabella Whitson – Bradenton Herald


Bradenton Herald

Innocent Lost: Izabella Whitson
Bradenton Herald
HER STORY: Izabella Whitson, whose parents had criminal records and a history of heavy drug use, was born prematurely and with withdrawal symptoms from methadone, a DCF report said at the time, although the investigation concluded Izabella's mother's

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Innocent Lost: Cameron Bosch – Bradenton Herald

Innocent Lost: Cameron Bosch
Bradenton Herald
In addition to methadone, Bosch, who also had taken Xanax some time before her baby died, had been in a methadone treatment program and had promised DCF caseworkers in a safety plan that she would "recover from her addiction" for "the baby's sake.".

Methadone Abuse – Google News

Innocent Lost: Jaxon Buchner-Henriquez – Bradenton Herald

Heroin Homicide Charge a First in Rock Island County – Quad City Times

Heroin homicide charge a first in Rock Island County – Quad City Times

Heroin homicide charge a first in Rock Island County
Quad City Times
Carrie Hoon was convicted by a jury in 2009 of possession with intent to deliver and involuntary manslaughter for providing methadone that resulted in an overdose. She was sentenced to 15 years. Currently, Precious Bailey and Spencer Smith are each

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Kentucky addicted babies increasing despite pain-pill crackdown – The Courier-Journal

Kentucky addicted babies increasing despite pain-pill crackdown
The Courier-Journal
Trinity is part of a heartbreaking surge in babies born dependent on drugs because of their mothers' addictions — which continues to escalate unabated despite Kentucky's crackdown on prescription-drug abuse. The state has seen hospitalizations for

Methadone Abuse – Google News

Law enforcement, educators and clinicians to focus on Shore heroin problem – Asbury Park Press