City’s Methadone Funds Could Cover Broader Addiction Plan – Boston Globe

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

BPHS proposes closing sole public methadone clinic – Daily Free Press (subscription)

BPHS proposes closing sole public methadone clinic
Daily Free Press (subscription)
Methadone is a synthetic narcotic that is used to reduce the craving for opiates, such as heroin, and the effects of withdrawal symptoms. In a state where heroin addiction, which methadone is used to combat, has caused 185 deaths in the past four

Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms – Google News

Crimea Side-Effect: Addicts Deprived of Methadone – Lexington Herald Leader

Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone – Lexington Herald Leader


Lexington Herald Leader

Crimea sideeffect: Addicts deprived of methadone
Lexington Herald Leader
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

Friend Of Dana Wilkes Said She Kept Questioning Bigoms About Her … – The Chattanoogan

Friend Of Dana Wilkes Said She Kept Questioning Bigoms About Her
The Chattanoogan
Ms. Coleman had recently started taking tricyclic anti-depressants, which at the beginning of treatment can cause side effects such as confusion, dizziness, and cognitive and memory impairment. Ms. Coleman also said she had been drinking. She does not

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Methadone Side Effects – Google News

Boston’s Only Public Methadone Clinic May Shut – Boston Globe

Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe

Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe
Despite assurances that methadone treatment will be uninterrupted if the city clinic closes, the possibility of a shutdown has raised fears among current and former staff that uninsured and indigent clients will be set adrift. Mimi Vitale, a nurse who

Methadone Symptoms – Google News

Methadone: ‘Liquid handcuffs’ – Sunday Star Times


Sunday Star Times

Methadone: 'Liquid handcuffs'
Sunday Star Times
A heavy-handed culture at the Christchurch Methadone Programme (CMP) is condemning addicts to a world of suicide, accidental overdose, crime and prostitution, according to a damning review. Methadone, or opioid substitution treatment, helps wean …

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Methadone Symptoms – Google News

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

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

Opiate abuse on rise – Nashoba Publishing

City’s Methadone Funds Could Cover Broader Addiction Plan – Boston Globe

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

and more »

Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms – Google News

BPHS proposes closing sole public methadone clinic – Daily Free Press (subscription)

BPHS proposes closing sole public methadone clinic
Daily Free Press (subscription)
Methadone is a synthetic narcotic that is used to reduce the craving for opiates, such as heroin, and the effects of withdrawal symptoms. In a state where heroin addiction, which methadone is used to combat, has caused 185 deaths in the past four

Methadone Withdrawal Symptoms – Google News