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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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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Police, doctors share drug ideas – Insurance News Net (press release)

Police, doctors share drug ideas
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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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To Stop an Overdose: Heroin, Narcan and the New Public Policies That Are … – Truth-Out

To Stop an Overdose: Heroin, Narcan and the New Public Policies That Are
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A person who takes a fatal dose of heroin or other opiate-based drug and stops breathing can often quickly be brought back if a friend, family member or medical professional has naloxone on hand and knows how to use it. …. noncoercive drug treatment

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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
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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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