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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Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures – The Intelligencer

Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures
The Intelligencer
About 40 percent of those 1,703 inmates — about 685 — were detoxed from opiates or methadone only. Haskins said some inmates may be on “multiple” detoxification regimes since many not only abuse opiates but other substances including alcohol.

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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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