Boston’s Only Public Methadone Clinic May Shut – Boston Globe

Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe

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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Suboxone might be the most effective way to beat heroin addiction. So why is … – Capital Times (blog)

Suboxone might be the most effective way to beat heroin addiction. So why is
Capital Times (blog)
It also blocks opiates from attaching onto the receptors, so it neutralizes the high experienced by taking heroin or other opiates. Suboxone isn't the only drug designed to get people off opiates. Methadone has been around for decades, but Suboxone has …

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Judge: Patrick might have gone too far in banning heavy-duty opiate – Capecodonline


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Judge: Patrick might have gone too far in banning heavy-duty opiate
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There are about 17,000 people in the state who use Methadone, an opiate that helps people avoid heroin, and there are 14 community health centers that run buprenorphine programs, and the correctional institutions are piloting a program of providing …
Maker of powerful painkiller sues to block state banThe Patriot Ledger

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Heroin task force focuses on treatment options, availability in Madison County – Insurance News Net (press release)

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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