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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Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM
(WZZM) – A drug introduced 75 years ago to wean addicts off heroin is now the leading cause of prescription overdose deaths in Kent County. The drug is methadone. It is widely prescribed as an inexpensive pain killer, but has become a killer in its own

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Crimea: no more McDonald’s or methadone after annexation – The Guardian


The Guardian

Crimea: no more McDonald's or methadone after annexation
The Guardian
In another small but symbolically significant change under Russian control – though again with major implications for those directly affected – hundreds of Crimean heroin addicts issued with methadone have been told the replacement drug will no longer
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Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM
Methadone entered the public consciousness in the 1950s when American doctors began using it to treat heroin addiction. Today, about 500,000 people are participating in methadone treatment programs nationwide, including several hundred locally.

Methadone Heroin – Google News

Crimea Heroin Addicts Deprived Of Methadone After Russia Annexation – Business Insider


Business Insider

Crimea Heroin Addicts Deprived Of Methadone After Russia Annexation
Business Insider
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) — Every morning, Sergei Kislov takes the bus to the rundown outskirts of this port city for the methadone doses that keep him off heroin without suffering withdrawal. Now that Russia has taken over Crimea, the trips are about
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Methadone Heroin – Google News

Crimean heroin addicts deprived of methadone because Russia bans it – CTV News

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

Methadone Opiates – Google News

Painkillers Might Not Be Right Prescription For Veterans – KPBS


KPBS

Painkillers Might Not Be Right Prescription For Veterans
KPBS
Meanwhile at the Department of Veterans Affairs, prescriptions for hydrocodone, methadone, morphine and oxycodone — all widely used and highly addictive painkillers, or opioids — had surged 270 percent, while its patient pool had increased just 41

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Fatal Methadone Overdoses Soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM

Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM
(WZZM) – A drug introduced 75 years ago to wean addicts off heroin is now the leading cause of prescription overdose deaths in Kent County. The drug is methadone. It is widely prescribed as an inexpensive pain killer, but has become a killer in its own

Methadone Drug – Google News

Crimea: no more McDonald’s or methadone after annexation – The Guardian


The Guardian

Crimea: no more McDonald's or methadone after annexation
The Guardian
In another small but symbolically significant change under Russian control – though again with major implications for those directly affected – hundreds of Crimean heroin addicts issued with methadone have been told the replacement drug will no longer
McDonald's (And Methadone) To Pull Out Of CrimeaInternational Business Times
McDonalds Has Decided to Move Out Of Crimea — Here's WhyPolicyMic

all 376 news articles »

The Safe Implementation of a Prison-Based Methadone Maintenance Programme … – 7thSpace Interactive (Press Release)

The safe implementation of a prison-based methadone maintenance programme … – 7thSpace Interactive (press release)

The safe implementation of a prison-based methadone maintenance programme
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Results: Results show that following introduction of a GPsi in substance misuse there was a statistically significant increase in both methadone maintenance and detoxification treatments. Over time the rate of methadone maintenance prescribing

Methadone Maintenance – Google News

40% rise in methadone clients over the decade – Irish Medical Times

40% rise in methadone clients over the decade
Irish Medical Times
In excess of 9,500 clients received methadone maintenance treatment in 2013 — an increase of almost 40 per cent from levels in 2003 when the programme commenced, IMT reports. According to end of year totals contained in the National Drugs Strategy …

Methadone Maintenance – Google News

Morgan: Newark-based rehab clinic eyes Jersey City – NJ.com