Archive for the ‘Methadone Treatment’ Category

Report on Expanding Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment in U.S. Criminal Justice System – Harold Pollack, co-director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab, talking about the opportunity to expand mental health and substance abuse treatment in th…

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Hazelden plans expansion of Betty Ford Centers in the west
The Affordable Care Act requires insurance coverage for drug and alcohol abuse treatment. The story noted that such mergers represent a national trend in health care in which organizations join forces to expand the areas that they cover and serve.
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Former Navy recruit Aaron Frazer denied abuse-related PTSD treatment by …
A former Defence force recruit is being refused treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder despite the Defence Abuse Response Taskforce (DART) acknowledging he was raped at a Navy recruit school. Aaron Frazer says the DVA should provide treatment for …
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Effectiveness of methadone treatment for heroin addiction – British Journal of Psychiatry

Effectiveness of methadone treatment for heroin addiction British Journal of Psychiatry All of the participants had been receiving 'conventional' methadone treatment for more than 6 months and continued 'to inject “street” heroin regularly'. On average, they had had over four prior treatment episodes. Accordingly, it is reasonable to … and more »

Methadone Treatment – Google News

Bain Capital company buys Brattleboro methadone clinic – vtdigger.org

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Bain Capital company buys Brattleboro methadone clinic vtdigger.org Brattleboro's opiate treatment center is the latest acquisition in a nationwide methadone clinic empire being assembled by a holding of private equity giant Bain Capital. CRC 3. CRC Health Group, owned by the Boston-based firm founded by 2012 GOP …

Methadone Treatment – Google News

Methadone: ‘Liquid handcuffs’ – Sunday Star Times

Neighbors act to block Kensington methadone clinic – Philly.com

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Neighbors act to block Kensington methadone clinic Philly.com Members of the East Kensington Neighbors Association have filed an appeal of the zoning board's decision last month to allow Kensington Hospital to move its methadone–treatment operation into a vacant building at the corner of Front and Diamond streets.

Methadone Treatment – Google News

Effectiveness of methadone treatment for heroin addiction – British Journal of Psychiatry

Effectiveness of methadone treatment for heroin addiction British Journal of Psychiatry All of the participants had been receiving 'conventional' methadone treatment for more than 6 months and continued 'to inject “street” heroin regularly'. On average, they had had over four prior treatment episodes. Accordingly, it is reasonable to … and more »

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Second methadone clinic opening in spring for the opiate-addicted – Petoskey News-Review

Painkiller Addiction (Mental Health Guru) – While useful as medication, prescription painkillers have also come to be recreationally used and abused. http://mental.healthguru.com/

Report: Many factors stoke heroin, opiate addiction crisis in New Jersey
The report, peppered with photographs and stories of young residents who have died from heroin and painkiller overdoses, paints a picture of a deepening epidemic of opiate addiction in New Jersey. In 2012, the report notes, there were more than 8,300 …
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Can snail venom be the new painkiller?
Snail Venom An experimental drug made from snail venom has shown early signs of promise in numbing pain, raising hopes in the hunt for new, non-addictive medications, researchers said on Sunday. The drug, which has not been tested yet on humans, …
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Neighbors act to block Kensington methadone clinic – Philly.com

Philly.com

Neighbors act to block Kensington methadone clinic Philly.com Members of the East Kensington Neighbors Association have filed an appeal of the zoning board's decision last month to allow Kensington Hospital to move its methadone–treatment operation into a vacant building at the corner of Front and Diamond streets.

Methadone Treatment – Google News

Effectiveness of methadone treatment for heroin addiction – British Journal of Psychiatry

Effectiveness of methadone treatment for heroin addiction British Journal of Psychiatry All of the participants had been receiving 'conventional' methadone treatment for more than 6 months and continued 'to inject “street” heroin regularly'. On average, they had had over four prior treatment episodes. Accordingly, it is reasonable to … and more »

Methadone Treatment – Google News

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Neighbors act to block Kensington methadone clinic – Philly.com

Philly.com

Neighbors act to block Kensington methadone clinic Philly.com Members of the East Kensington Neighbors Association have filed an appeal of the zoning board's decision last month to allow Kensington Hospital to move its methadone–treatment operation into a vacant building at the corner of Front and Diamond streets.

Methadone Treatment – Google News

Effectiveness of methadone treatment for heroin addiction – British Journal of Psychiatry

Effectiveness of methadone treatment for heroin addiction British Journal of Psychiatry All of the participants had been receiving 'conventional' methadone treatment for more than 6 months and continued 'to inject “street” heroin regularly'. On average, they had had over four prior treatment episodes. Accordingly, it is reasonable to … and more »

Methadone Treatment – Google News

Officials: Time for a Bennington drug treatment center or methadone clinic – Brattleboro Reformer