Best Treatment for Painkiller Addiction
Best Treatment for Painkiller Addiction – Ray Caesar, Opioid Treatment Authority, Oklahoma Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services, addresses the Tribal Forum on Painkiller Addiction, June 21, 2012, at Absentee Shawnee Counseling Services, identifying the SAMHSA evidence-based best practices for opiate addiction. He discusses Medication Assisted Treatment and the use of methadone. For more information see ascs-okc.com
State must combat addiction epidemic
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The first allows for broader use of naloxone, a life-saving medication that reverses opiate overdose. The second … Addiction should be treated as a significant public health issue and recovery recognized as valuable to all communities. We can all …
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Let's End the Prescription Drug Death Epidemic
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Fatal prescription drug overdoses actually surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of accidental death in 2007. Many of the overdoses (36 percent) involveprescription opioid painkillers, which were actually the cause of more overdose deaths than …
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