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Combat Veterans Battle an Enemy Within: Addiction

Combat veterans battle an enemy within: Addiction
In 12 years after 9/11, prescriptions of four primary opiate painkillers – oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, and methadone – rose 270 percent at VA hospitals, according to internal VA records obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting.
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Combat Vets Battle an Enemy Within: Addiction

Combat vets battle an enemy within: Addiction
The first time Pearson Crosby went to the methadone clinic at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center in early 2013, he asked his father to go with him.
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Suboxone Might Be the Most Effective Way to Beat Heroin Addiction. So Why Is … – Chippewa Herald

Suboxone might be the most effective way to beat heroin addiction. So why is … – Chippewa Herald

Suboxone might be the most effective way to beat heroin addiction. So why is
Chippewa Herald
It also blocks opiates from attaching onto the receptors, so it neutralizes the high experienced by taking heroin or other opiates. Suboxone isn't the only drug designed to get people off opiates. Methadone has been around for decades, but Suboxone has …

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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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R.I. Senate Panel Considers Bills to Aid Treatment of Drug Addiction – the Providence Journal

R.I. Senate panel considers bills to aid treatment of drug addiction – The Providence Journal

R.I. Senate panel considers bills to aid treatment of drug addiction
The Providence Journal
Shawn Donahue, lobbyist for Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, said the insurer would not support the bill “despite its admirable intention” but that Blue Cross is working with the Health Department to make methadone more widely available. Kelly

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Our opinion: An opiate emergency – Berkshire Eagle

Our opinion: An opiate emergency
Berkshire Eagle
The Sunday Boston Globe, in a harrowing story on a baby prosecutors believe died as a result of a heroin-tainted milk bottle given her by her parents, reported that in 2012, 1,300 babies were born addicted to heroin or prescription drugs like methadone

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Letter: Methadone programs can beat addiction – Newsday

R.I. Senate Panel Considers Bills to Aid Treatment of Drug Addiction – the Providence Journal

R.I. Senate panel considers bills to aid treatment of drug addiction – The Providence Journal

R.I. Senate panel considers bills to aid treatment of drug addiction
The Providence Journal
Shawn Donahue, lobbyist for Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, said the insurer would not support the bill “despite its admirable intention” but that Blue Cross is working with the Health Department to make methadone more widely available. Kelly

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Our opinion: An opiate emergency – Berkshire Eagle

Our opinion: An opiate emergency
Berkshire Eagle
The Sunday Boston Globe, in a harrowing story on a baby prosecutors believe died as a result of a heroin-tainted milk bottle given her by her parents, reported that in 2012, 1,300 babies were born addicted to heroin or prescription drugs like methadone

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Mother Accused Of Slamming Baby On Sidewalk – Huffington Post

North Korea’s New Drug Addiction – GlobalPost

North Korea’s new drug addiction – GlobalPost

North Korea's new drug addiction
GlobalPost
Amidon, commonly called methadone in the West, has roots in World War II, when the German military needed a powerful drug for its wounded and dying. “Amidone was the trade-name for Methadone before the German manufacturers dropped the patents …

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Russia bans methadone in Crimea – ITAR-TASS

Russia bans methadone in Crimea
ITAR-TASS
Russia will ban methadone, a narcotic drug used in the treatment of drug addiction, in Crimea, Russia's Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) chief Viktor Ivanov said on Wednesday, March 26. Methadone has become a criminal business in Ukraine. Ivanov …

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Crisis Looms for Addicts as Russia Bans Methadone in Crimea – Drug War Chronicle