Boston’s Only Public Methadone Clinic May Shut – Boston Globe
Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe Boston health officials are poised to close the city's only public methadone clinic at a time when heroin overdoses, which methadone is used to combat, are rising dramatically across the state. Shutting the clinic, which has offered methadone to opiate … |
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Opioid abuse worries Wakefield, neighboring communities – Wicked Local Wakefield
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Opioid abuse worries Wakefield, neighboring communities
Wicked Local Wakefield It's all about opiates. It's all about addiction," Wakefield Police Chief Rick Smith. "We are plagued with this scourge. This is not a law enforcement problem anymore; this is a prevention problem. Law enforcement can only do so much. The courts can … |
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Heroin task force focuses on treatment options, availability in Madison County – Insurance News Net (press release)
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Heroin task force focuses on treatment options, availability in Madison County
Insurance News Net (press release) Rachel was treated with a methadone series, which Park said is only one component of modern opiate treatment. Methadone itself is a long-acting, synthetic narcotic, but works differently on the brain. Instead of filling those opiate receptors, Park … |
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Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment – STLtoday.com
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Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
STLtoday.com Of those, about 10 percent are residential facilities, about 80 percent are outpatient programs and about 10 percent are methadone clinics. There's also a small number of state-run programs funded by Medicaid. Two-thirds of all treatment programs are … |
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It takes more than methadone to treat addiction – Boston Globe
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It takes more than methadone to treat addiction
Boston Globe I write as the former director of the methadone clinic originally operated by the Tufts-New England Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry and later by Bay Cove Human Services (“Drug clinic may shut,” Page A1, April 7). Brian MacQuarrie's excellent … |
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