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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Police, doctors share drug ideas – Capecodonline

Police, doctors share drug ideas
Capecodonline
opiate addicts moved to cheaper and more available heroin. In the last 15 years, the number of patients at the Cape's only methadone clinic has risen from under 200 to 450 patients, said Yarmouth police Detective Sgt. Chuck Peterson. DEA Diversion

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It takes more than methadone to treat addiction – Boston Globe

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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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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