Posts Tagged ‘heroin addiction’
Methadone Detox: Ho Chi Minh City Promotes Community-Based Drug Detox – Thanh Nien Daily
Ho Chi Minh City promotes community-based drug detox – Thanh Nien Daily
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Ho Chi Minh City promotes community-based drug detox
Thanh Nien Daily Ho Chi Minh City authorities opened a methadone treatment center on Tuesday and continued to push a trial project to provide community-based drug treatment despite the fact that it has not been as effective as expected. Launched a year ago by the city … |
Combat Vets Battle an Enemy Within: Addiction – Military.com
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Combat Vets Battle an Enemy Within: Addiction
Military.com In 12 years after 9/11, prescriptions of four primary opiate painkillers — oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, and methadone — rose 270 percent at VA hospitals, according to internal VA records obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting. Last … |
Protesters call for more services for addicted Islanders – The Guardian Charlottetown
Combat Vets Battle an Enemy Within: Addiction – Military.com
Combat Vets Battle an Enemy Within: Addiction – Military.com
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Combat Vets Battle an Enemy Within: Addiction
Military.com In 12 years after 9/11, prescriptions of four primary opiate painkillers — oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, and methadone — rose 270 percent at VA hospitals, according to internal VA records obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting. Last … |
Protesters call for more services for addicted Islanders – The Guardian Charlottetown
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Protesters call for more services for addicted Islanders
The Guardian Charlottetown “I'm so proud of him, and he's even off the methadone now,” she said to cheers from the crowd. “Please help our children.” Greg MacKinnon spoke of his own personal struggles … “Thank god I got treated how I did when I did because if I had gone to … |
Methadone Detox: Combat Vets Battle an Enemy Within: Addiction – Military.com
Combat Vets Battle an Enemy Within: Addiction – Military.com
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Combat Vets Battle an Enemy Within: Addiction
Military.com In 12 years after 9/11, prescriptions of four primary opiate painkillers — oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, and methadone — rose 270 percent at VA hospitals, according to internal VA records obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting. Last … |
Recent jail deaths raise questions about detox protocols – Newsworks.org
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Recent jail deaths raise questions about detox protocols
Newsworks.org Detox lasts seven to 10 days, and medical staff are supposed to check in regularly. Staff members do not administer methadone, except in the case of pregnant women, or Suboxone, a newer narcotic used in the treatment of heroin addiction. Bryan Kennedy … |
Disease of the mind – Ledger Independent
Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics – Boston Globe
Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe
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Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Boston Globe Methadone is often stigmatized, he acknowledged, but for some addicts — when it's used in combination with counseling and other treatments — the substitute drug makes a dramatic difference in their lives. “Methadone will allow you to go from a … |
Methadone Treatment – Google News
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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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, … |
Methadone Treatment – Google News
Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM
Jason Davis Celebrity Rehab – Heroin Weight Loss
Jason Davis Celebrity Rehab – Heroin Weight Loss – Jason Davis, heir to the Davis Petroleum fortune, explains the reason for his weight loss on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, from The Soup. I do not own any o…
Prescriptions for R.I.'s addiction crisis
Support medication-assisted treatment: Rhode Island has a wonderful infrastructure of methadone clinics and there is right now availability for people to get on methadone. It's less true for Suboxone [buprenorphine, another drug to treat addiction …
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Suboxone might be the most effective way to beat heroin addiction. So why is …
Sue Moran, Journey's clinical director, says that addicts involved in the organization's Suboxone clinic "tend to do really well." "Once they get stable, their lives improve," she says. "They return to work, they return to family relationships. Things …
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Recent Jail Deaths Raise Questions About Detox Protocols – Newsworks.org
Recent jail deaths raise questions about detox protocols – Newsworks.org
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Recent jail deaths raise questions about detox protocols
Newsworks.org Detox lasts seven to 10 days, and medical staff are supposed to check in regularly. Staff members do not administer methadone, except in the case of pregnant women, or Suboxone, a newer narcotic used in the treatment of heroin addiction. Bryan Kennedy … |
Kentuckiana faces rising problem of drug abuse and addiction – IU Southeast Horizon
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Kentuckiana faces rising problem of drug abuse and addiction
IU Southeast Horizon The Healing Place is one of the few places in Louisville to offer more than just a 30-day detox program. Because only 20 percent of its funding comes from the public sector and the rest from various partnerships and private donations, it is able to … |