Column: The Quiet Epidemic That Kills – Valley News

Column: The Quiet Epidemic That Kills – Valley News

Column: The Quiet Epidemic That Kills
Valley News
That epidemic, which I've spent the last year researching for a forthcoming book, is rooted in a 20-year revolution in medicine that has resulted in far wider prescribing of opiates. Narcotic painkillers are now prescribed for chronic back and They

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Treating opiate scourge grabs more government spotlight – Newsday

Treating opiate scourge grabs more government spotlight
Newsday
Reached last week, Henry Bartlett, who directs a statewide coalition of opiate treatment programs, said in battling chronic long-term opiate addiction, “medicines like Methadone, Buprenorphine, and Vivitrol, combined with counseling, has a far greater 

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Parts of region see slight uptick in heroin crime – The Virginian-Pilot

Parts of region see slight uptick in heroin crime
The Virginian-Pilot
The number of deaths by heroin and other opioids – such as painkillers like OxyContin and methadone – started climbing in the state about 10 years ago, said Mellie Randall, director of the state Office of Substance Abuse Services. That's when the

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