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Woman smuggled heroin into maximum security prison

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The judge said she was now drug-free and had reached an important turning point in her life after wasting the past decade addicted to heroin. Nguyen was sentenced to an 18-month community corrections order and ordered to undergo treatment and testing …
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Doctors' groundbreaking research led to methadone's use in treating addiction

Question by badboy11904: why are there so many commercials on tv putting pot down and none for alcohol or crack ? whats worse lol?
we have crack addicts and alcoholics but there is no mention of those on tv! whats up with this world? its ok to rob. sell their bodys for crack and everything the “heroin addicts did”. same with alcoholism…drunk drivers killing themselves and others but they get away with it! we have medical uses for pot but none for alcohol or crack! whats the govt. thinking! oh…thats right “they dont think!” i say “sopport your state for pot laws for medical use and limited personal use!” im in ny and they just turned down a law in the senate for pot use for medical . yet they allow methadone morphine to be used for pain management when its been proven that pot will do the same without the addictions and dangerouse side effects from “so called pain management using opiates…addicting opiates”. we allow people to become alcoholics and knowingly commit murder by allowing the abuse!” man i could go on and on but not enough room!” sopport your state and your beliefs”change the laws!”

Doctors’ groundbreaking research led to methadone’s use in treating addiction – Lodi News-Sentinel

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Doctors' groundbreaking research led to methadone's use in treating addiction Lodi News-Sentinel Their research eventually focused on methadone, first synthesized in Germany and used as a substitute for morphine. They started treating heroin addicts with methadone in 1964, finding that the drug blocked heroin's rush and instead provided a slow …

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The Courier investigates –methadone,the facts – Campbeltown Courier

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The Courier investigates –methadone,the facts Campbeltown Courier While health bosses once again confirm that plans to bring a methadone clinic to Campbeltown Hospital to treat heroin addicts has been delayed,the Courier looks at the pros and cons of methadone treatment. We also speak to a GP in Campbeltown,the …

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Methadone concentrations in blood, plasma, and oral fluid determined by isotope-dilution gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

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Anal Bioanal Chem. 2012 Oct 23;
Hsu YC, Chen BG, Yang SC, Wang YS, Huang SP, Huang MH, Chen TJ, Liu HC, Lin DL, Liu RH, Jones AW

Methadone (MTD) is widely used for detoxification of heroin addicts and also in pain management programs. Information about the distribution of methadone between blood, plasma, and alternative specimens, such as oral fluid (OF), is needed in clinical, forensic, and traffic medicine when analytical results are interpreted. We determined MTD and its metabolite 2-ethylidene-1,5-dimethyl-3,3-diphenylpyrrolidine (EDDP) in blood, plasma, blood cells, and OF by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) after adding deuterium-labeled internal standards. The analytical limits of quantitation for MTD and EDDP by this method were 20 and 3 ng/mL, respectively. The amounts of MTD and EDDP were higher in plasma (80.4 % and 76.5 %) compared with blood cells (19.6 % and 23.5 %) and we found that repeated washing of blood cells with phosphate-buffered saline increased the amounts in plasma (93.6 % and 88.6 %). Mean plasma/blood concentration ratios of MTD and EDDP in spiked samples (N?=?5) were 1.27 and 1.21, respectively. In clinical samples from patients (N?=?46), the concentrations of MTD in plasma and whole blood were highly correlated (r?=?0.92, p?Source

[New drugs for small animals in 2011].

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Tierarztl Prax Ausg K Kleintiere Heimtiere. 2012 Oct 17; 40(5): 351-62
Emmerich IU

In 2011, nine active pharmaceutical ingredients were released on the German market for small animals. Those are the cyclooxygenase-2-inhibitor Cimicoxib (Cimalgex®), the opium-derived analgesic Methadone (Comfortan®), the antiemetic Metoclopramide (Emeprid®), the corticosteroid Mometasone furoate in combination with the antifungal agent Posaconazole (Posatex®), the fluorchinolone-antibiotic Pradofloxacin (Veraflox®), the insecticide Spinosad (Comfortis®), the cytostatic Toceranib (Palladia®) and the vitamin Phytomenadione (Vitamin K1 Laboratoire TVM). Two additional substances were authorized for additional species. The tetracycline-antibiotic Doxycycline is now available for carrier pigeons and the anticoccidial Toltrazuril in combination with Emodepside is likewise authorized for dogs. Furthermore, one new preparation with an interesting new pharmaceutical form and two products with a new strength were added to the market for small animals. In addition, four active pharmaceutical ingredients with approval for use in human medicine, which are of potential interest to veterinary medicine, entered the market in 2011. Those are the antiepileptic Retigabine, the ophthalmic Bromfenac, the psychotropic drug Dexamfetamine and the cytostatic Eribulin.
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