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The safe implementation of a prison-based methadone maintenance programme …
Methods: Time series analysis of secondary prescribing data pertaining to opiate maintenance therapies, opiate detoxification therapies and opiate related deaths for the time period 2003 to 2010. Results: Results show that following introduction of a …
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The politics of addiction
Thirteen bills — mostly before the state House — propose ways to treat addicts, educate Ohioans about prescription drug and opioid abuse, regulate how painkillers such as Vicodin, OxyContin, and Percocet are dispensed and monitored, and prevent the …
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Question by Laina: Help with opiate withdrawals , OTC meds only!?
I’m trying to quit cold turkey here (no methadone, no bupes). I am not a crazy drug addict or anything. I have just been taking Norco/Lorcet (depending on which of my two doctors I go to) for around 4 years. I’m tired of feeling worried and anxious when I run out, which I always do. Not because of abuse, but because of the doctor’s instructions on taking it and how often he/she will prescribe it. Norco is supposed to last two weeks, which is does, but I cannot afford to go to my doctor every two weeks. Lorcet lasts longer, since it has less dosages, but it is even worse. I run out, but I am scripted THIS by my OBGYN (I have very bad endometriosis) and she charges insane prices just to have her check out my female parts and write a prescription. Hundreds of dollars for a few minutes of uncomfortable examination and a script.    Read more...

Question by TedDanson: I am slowly getting off Methadone. Worried about the withdrawals… Help?
OK.. I was addicted to the painkiller Oxycontin for a couple years. It is an opiate, (which of course I didn’t know when I started using it) and is basically just as addicting, or maybe even more addicting than Heroin.

I wasn’t a guy who got in accident and was prescribed it or anything. Actually I was a successful drug dealer who had a lot of money to blow on these stupid pain killers which I snorted up my nose. I never wanted to believe I was addicted to this stuff, and actually self detoxed 9 times throughout a 2 year period, always relapsing around the 3 week, 1 month mark, because I couldn’t take the depression and boring-ness of normal drug free life. Eventually I decided to change my life around and stop selling drugs. When I started working a normal job, making normal money there was no way I could financially support my PK addiction. So knowing that self detoxing will only result in re-lapse, I checked into a methadone maintenance program.    Read more...

Should we be threatening cocaine addicts with execution? – Spectator.co.uk

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Should we be threatening cocaine addicts with execution? Spectator.co.uk Mao Tse-tung was by far the greatest therapist of drug addiction in world history. He threatened to execute opium addicts if they didn't give up. Threats to murder were about the only utterances of Mao's that could be believed, and 20 million addicts … EDITORIAL: Drug Addiction: A Public Health CrisisLitchfield County Times all 3 news articles »

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SALOME Study: Treatment for Heroin Addiction (4/7) – Part 4 of the video discusses methadone maintenance therapy. There is a subgroup of individuals who do not benefit from methadone as a treatment for heroin a…

SPECIAL REPORT, DAY 2: Fighting back against heroin's stranglehold
People outside addiction services think a heroin addict seeking to reform must move from abuse to detox to treatment, after which he or she will end up drug-free. … More level two GPs, who can prescribe methadone, must also be brought on board, he says.
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Medication-Assisted Treatment With Methadone: Assessing the Evidence
Objective Detoxification followed by abstinence has shown little success in reducing illicit opioid use. Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) helps individuals with an opioid use disorder abstain from or decrease use of illegal or nonmedical opiates.
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Opiates are being over-prescribed, say doctor and pharmacist associations
Dr. David Wong, a pediatrician who practices at the Prince County Hospital, said he has seen an increase in newborns with neonatal withdrawal syndrome – babies born to mothers addicted to opiates. “Within 24 to 48 hours we would be dealing with a baby …
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Some of the harrowing cases of children in care
She had attended a detox programme prior to the birth and was stable on methadone maintenance. … The garda told the court: "people injecting and smoking heroin would have a ring around their mouth, it's like a white ring stain, it's really from the …
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