Doctors Have Reached Limit on Prescribing Medication for Heroin Withdrawals
Doctors have reached limit on prescribing medication for heroin withdrawals
But doctors only can prescribe the drug to 100 patients at a time or to 30 patients during their first year, which is the case for Beacon Center's doctors in Utica and Herkimer. Milestones hit that 100-patient mark for its only doctor in November …
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Heroin use climbs in Maine as cheaper alternative to prescription drugs
From there, she graduated to heroin because “it was cheaper than Dilaudid,” she said. Heroin takes her pain away, she said, and staves off the nausea, diarrhea and other withdrawal symptoms. It's also cheaper than other opiates. “Oxy 30s are like 40 …
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