Methadone Treatment: Boston to Shutter Drug Treatment Facility – Boston Globe

Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe

Boston to shutter drug treatment facility
Boston Globe
In a 6-to-1 vote last week, Boston's Board of Health decided to end more than 40 years of city-run methadone treatment, which uses the narcotic to wean addicts from heroin and other opiates. The addiction services will now be handled by Community …

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

Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe
Shutting the clinic, which has offered methadone to opiate addicts for 40 years, would mean that hundreds of clients served every day at the Frontage Road site and at a separate counseling center in the South End would be treated by private providers, …

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Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM
Would seem to make more sense to substitute medical marijuana for methadone to treat addicts. Methadone can be just as lethal as the drug for which it's being substituted. I saw far more economic and personal damage from alcohol than from pot during my …

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One Response to “Methadone Treatment: Boston to Shutter Drug Treatment Facility – Boston Globe”

  • swishagreens:

    Methadone for pain is nothing new. It has been around for decades for pain
    and opiate addiction. Most people look at it as just a heroin substitute
    drug or methadone maintenance therapy drug for opiate addiction but it is
    also used for pain and works great for some people because of it’s long
    half life and the power of the drug it works well for some people in
    chronic pain. It is also a lot cheaper then a lot of newer pain meds such
    as oxycontin, opana etc.?