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Methadone Opiates: Pain Pill Addiction Torments Even the Most Innocent – Kennebec Journal

Methadone Opiates: Pain pill addiction torments even the most innocent – Kennebec Journal


Kennebec Journal

Pain pill addiction torments even the most innocent
Kennebec Journal
Most of the drug-exposed newborns experience opiate withdrawal and require weeks of hospital treatment, often with small daily doses of morphine or methadone, a drug to treat adult opiate addicts. It costs about $ 25000, on average, to treat each baby

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Methadone Opiates: Jails learning how to deal with prescription drug abuse – Kennebec Journal


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Jails learning how to deal with prescription drug abuse
Kennebec Journal
Most of the 6000 or so inmates who come through the Penobscot County Jail in a year are taking some sort of medication, often for mental illness or opiate addiction. All of the medications and medical care must be paid for by the jail, which is funded

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Drug-Affected Babies Present Problems – Kennebec Journal

Methadone Drug: Drug-affected babies present problems – Kennebec Journal


Kennebec Journal

Drug-affected babies present problems
Kennebec Journal
He does not prescribe sedatives for the babies, and the process of weaning off methadone takes two to four weeks in the hospital, depending on what drugs the mothers had taken and other factors. Breast-fed babies tend to go home sooner than formula-fed

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Methadone Drug: Eminem: Prescription drug Ambien ‘wiped out five years of my life’ – NME.com


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Eminem: Prescription drug Ambien 'wiped out five years of my life'
NME.com
I have all that shit in a box in my closet. As a reminder that I don't ever want to go back.” During the peak of his drug addiction, he revealed that he was taking up to 60 Valium and 30 Vicodin pills a day. In 2007, he overdosed on methadone.
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