It Takes More Than Methadone to Treat Addiction – Boston Globe

It takes more than methadone to treat addiction – Boston Globe

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

City's methadone funds could cover broader addiction plan
Boston Globe
Closing the city's only public methadone clinic might sound like a cold-hearted move, but Mayor Walsh's administration is acting responsibly by making plans to shutter the facility. As long as the city can ensure that the more than 400 patients who now
Boston officials looking to transfer operations of only city run methadone clinicMassLive.com

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Methadone Addiction – Google News

Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM
Methadone entered the public consciousness in the 1950s when American doctors began using it to treat heroin addiction. Today, about 500,000 people are participating in methadone treatment programs nationwide, including several hundred locally.

Methadone Abuse – Google News

Opioid abuse worries Wakefield, neighboring communities – Wicked Local Wakefield

Opioid abuse worries Wakefield, neighboring communities
Wicked Local Wakefield
Penelope Funaoile, the Mystic Valley Opioid Abuse Prevention Coordinator, which includes all of the aforementioned communities, noted most overdose patients are between 21-29 and between 30-49. She noted the demographics for admissions are fairly

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Methadone Abuse – Google News

Researcher develops novel IBT to help opioid-dependent Vermonters – News-Medical.net

Methadone: ‘Liquid Handcuffs’ – Sunday Star Times

Methadone: ‘Liquid handcuffs’ – Sunday Star Times


Sunday Star Times

Methadone: 'Liquid handcuffs'
Sunday Star Times
He had grown dependent on methadone after swallowing it daily for more than 20 years and in the last few weeks of his life, as his health failed and he suffered nightmarish withdrawal symptoms, Dave became "a dead man walking", his daughter told The …

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Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms – Google News

City’s methadone funds could cover broader addiction plan – Boston Globe

City's methadone funds could cover broader addiction plan
Boston Globe
The city clinic, on Frontage Road in the South End, has operated for 40 years, since methadone first won approval as a treatment for heroin addiction. Methadone reduces cravings for heroin and helps stave off withdrawal symptoms. The drug was a giant

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Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms – Google News

EMA – Meeting highlights from the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment … – DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)

Crimea Side-Effect: Addicts Deprived of Methadone – Anchorage Daily News

Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone – Anchorage Daily News

Crimea sideeffect: Addicts deprived of methadone
Anchorage Daily News
In this photo taken Tuesday, April 1, 2014, Sergei, a patient of treatment for drug addiction, poses at a bus stop with an advert reading "Rehabilitation of drug and alcohol addicts" in Sevastopol, Crimea. Across the Black Sea peninsula, some 800

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Methadone Side Effects – Google News

Opioid abuse worries Wakefield, neighboring communities – Wicked Local Wakefield

Opioid abuse worries Wakefield, neighboring communities
Wicked Local Wakefield
This includes heroin, morphine, codeine, methadone, oxycodone (OxyCotin, Percocet), hydrocodone (Vicodin), and Fentanyl. "People feel … This increased effect can reduce the window of time it takes for an overdose to become a death, Funaoile said

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Methadone Side Effects – Google News

EMA – Meeting highlights from the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment … – DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)

BARTON JAIL: On the Other Side of the Fence

BARTON JAIL: On the other side of the fence
During his latest stint, Josh watched as a fellow inmate guzzled back another man's vomit, trying to get the high from the already-digested methadone dose. He'd paid the guy to disgorge it. He'd pulled a sock over the top of a cup to … There were 94 …
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Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM
Methadone entered the public consciousness in the 1950s when American doctors began using it to treat heroin addiction. Today, about 500,000 people are participating in methadone treatment programs nationwide, including several hundred locally.

Methadone Abuse – Google News

Opioid abuse worries Wakefield, neighboring communities – Wicked Local Wakefield

Opioid abuse worries Wakefield, neighboring communities
Wicked Local Wakefield
Penelope Funaoile, the Mystic Valley Opioid Abuse Prevention Coordinator, which includes all of the aforementioned communities, noted most overdose patients are between 21-29 and between 30-49. She noted the demographics for admissions are fairly

and more »

Methadone Abuse – Google News

Opiate abuse on rise – Nashoba Publishing