Russell Brand urges move away from methadone clinics to treat addicts – The Guardian

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Russell Brand urges move away from methadone clinics to treat addicts The Guardian Resources should be diverted away from methadone schemes and diverted towards abstinence-based recovery initiatives as a way of treatment drug addiction, Russell Brand urges in a forthcoming BBC documentary in which the comedian and actor says …

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BANGLADESH: Hoping to expand methadone treatment – IRINnews.org

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BANGLADESH: Hoping to expand methadone treatment IRINnews.org BANGKOK, 8 August 2012 (IRIN) – Methadone treatment is proving to be the most efficient way to wean people in Bangladesh from addiction to buprenorphine, a pharmaceutical drug, and health experts say it should be expanded to reach thousands more … and more »

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Family doctors could be key to methadone program – Cape Breton Post

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Family doctors could be key to methadone program Cape Breton Post While some people are eventually able to transition off methadone as a treatment for opiate addiction, for others the addiction is chronic and methadone maintenance remains a long-term, and possibly lifelong, requirement, Courey said. “As we work to …

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Methadone: Safe, Effective Management of the Painkiller Crisis – A massive wave of prescription painkiller addiction, 5.5% of people 12 years and over, and 6.8% in Oklahoma, is meeting with a rapidly reduced supply of these drugs. Conversion to heroin is very likely as it is more prevalent, purer, priced less than ever before. With that is crime, disease, broken families, homelessness, and death. Methadone treatment is the proven safe and effective way to manage this mass of destruction – especially when done in a SAMHSA evidenced-based best clinical practice model. ascs-okc.com http

Tiffin doctor faces several drug counts

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… grand jury Wednesday on 24 counts of aggravated trafficking in drugs, a second-degree felony; two counts each of third-degree and fourth-degree drug trafficking, and single counts of fifth-degree drug trafficking and methadone-treatment license …
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Methadone Overdoses

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