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Methadone Maintenance: My struggles with addiction
Editor’s note: This personal story is written by an anonymous drug addict from the Leeds-Grenville area and was submitted to the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit. Each addict’s journey is different.[...]
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Methadone Maintenance: Letters to editor: Outraged over tax hike, Romney’s flip-flopping good
Many Brevard citizens remain upset over the County Commission’s 2012 budget decision. Reports in the spring showed Brevard job losses for the year were the highest among the state’s 22 metro areas and one of only seven counties to have increased unemployment rates over last year.
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Methadone Maintenance: World marks International AIDS Day
International Aids Day is being marked around the world on December 1.
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Methadone Maintenance: Vehicle registration reminders will be mailed out once again
The provincial government will resume mailing out motor vehicle registration renewal reminders in the new year, reversing a move by the former Liberal government to scrap the notices to save money.
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Methadone Maintenance: Study Finds Harmful Painkiller Use Among Methadone Patients
A new study has shown harmful prescription patterns of powerful painkillers among a substantial number of Ontario patients who received methadone therapy to treat their opioid addiction. Methadone, which is a type of long-acting opioid, has proven to be an effective therapy for opioid dependence. According to a new study by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and Institute for …
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Methadone Maintenance: Harmful patterns of painkiller prescriptions seen among methadone patients
( Centre for Addiction and Mental Health ) A new study has shown harmful prescription patterns of powerful painkillers among a substantial number of Ontario patients who received methadone therapy to treat their opioid addiction.
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Methadone Maintenance: Combination of other opioids with methadone therapy can lead to overdose or fatal consequences
A new study has shown harmful prescription patterns of powerful painkillers among a substantial number of Ontario patients who received methadone therapy to treat their opioid addiction.
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Methadone Maintenance: Methadone study troubling
A provincial study has found that nearly one in five people taking methadone treatment for opiate dependency also take narcotic painkillers. Dr. Del Donald, one of five physicians at the Bluewater Methadone Clinic in Sarnia, said that’s a troubling statistic.[...]
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Methadone Maintenance: Nonprofit takes Pittsfield to federal court over drug clinic
PITTSFIELD — A Worcester-based company is suing the city of Pittsfield in federal court in an effort to open a downtown substance-abuse treatment center that would include a methadone clinic for recovering heroin addicts.
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Methadone Maintenance: New Details About OxyNEO
OxyContin, a pain relief medication that has made headlines in recent years because of widespread misuse and abuse, is being phased out by its manufacturer, Purdue Pharma Canada.
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Methadone Maintenance: Dr Conrad Murray profile
A closer look at the life of Dr Conrad Murray – the physician personally hired by Michael Jackson at the start of his ‘This is It’ comeback tour, who has been embroiled in the controversy surrounding his death in 2009 and then found guilty of involuntary manslaughter of the King of Pop.
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Methadone Maintenance: American Pain Society Supports CDC’s Attention to Prescription Drug Misuse
The American Pain Society today expressed strong support for CDC’s call for a multifaceted approach to address the problem and for its assertion that efforts to rectify this public health crisis must strike a balance between reducing misuse and abuse while safeguarding legitimate access to treatment.
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Methadone Maintenance: The Conrad Murray Verdict: Is It an Indictment of Modern Medicine?
Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty on Monday of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. With overdose deaths tripling in the past decade, should Murray’s conviction be a lesson to other doctors? Not really
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Methadone Maintenance: Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Prescription Drug Abuse: The New Killer on the Block
The work ahead is not about keeping pain medications from patients in need. It is about good medicine and public health.
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Methadone Maintenance: CAMH Releases Buprenorphine Guideline for treatment of Opioid Dependence – CNW.ca
It has been estimated that only 25 per cent of Canadian opioid-dependent patients are in methadone maintenance treatment; particularly in certain provinces and in non-urban areas, access to treatment is quite limited. While methadone is still an effective …
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Methadone Maintenance: APS supports CDC’s call for multifaceted approach to address prescription drug misuse – News-Medical.Net
In some patients, however, the risks outweigh potential benefits and efforts must be redoubled to provide effective non-opioid therapies or the patient referred to receive opioid in an addiction treatment setting such as a methadone maintenance …
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Methadone Maintenance: American Pain Society Supports CDC’s Attention to Prescription Drug Misuse – Newswise
In some patients, however, the risks outweigh potential benefits and efforts must be redoubled to provide effective non-opioid therapies or the patient referred to receive opioid in an addiction treatment setting such as a methadone maintenance or …
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Methadone Maintenance: Enabling policies – star.com.my
Their approach is a holistic one, in that it involves assessment by qualified psychologists and social workers, cooperation with law enforcement entities, methadone maintenance therapy, needle-and-syringe exchange programmes, and socio-behavioural …
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Methadone Maintenance: Department of Health: Help is available to fight addiction – Silver City Sun News
“The outpatient treatment may be an alternative to narcotic treatment with methadone maintenance therapy and decreases the sharing of needles among injecting drug users to reduce the transmission Hepatitis C and HIV. We know addiction is a major …
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Methadone Maintenance: Is Murray’s Verdict in Jackson’s Death an Indictment of Modern Medicine? – Time
What’s strange here is that if the singer’s insomnia had resulted from opioid withdrawal, using an opioid like methadone to either maintain … failure to consider opioid maintenance or slower detox may have been fatal because propofol is …
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Methadone Maintenance: Prescription Drug Abuse: The New Killer on the Block – Huffingtonpost.com
guidelines and training programs (see the work of the NYS agency for alcohol and substance abuse — www.oasas.ny.gov– including its Opiates and Addiction Medication Workbook and Guide for Acute Pain Management for Patients Receiving Maintenance Methadone …
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