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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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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Tracing the US heroin surge back south of the border as Mexican cannabis … – Washington Post


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Tracing the US heroin surge back south of the border as Mexican cannabis
Washington Post
… farmers are turning away from cannabis and filling their fields with opium poppies. Mexican heroin is flooding north as U.S. authorities trying to contain an epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse have tightened controls on synthetic opiates
Former pot growers fueling the US heroin invasionThe Reporter

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Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment – The-News-Leader


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Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
The-News-Leader
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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