Posts Tagged ‘opiate detox’
Patients Caution Lawmakers About Role of Pain Medications
Patients caution lawmakers about role of pain medications
By Colleen Quinn State House News Service BOSTON — People coping with chronic pain cautioned lawmakers, looking for solutions to opiate-addiction problems, not to make pain medications so difficult to obtain that those who truly need them
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Are doctors to blame for opiate addiction epidemic? CDC reports doctors are a leading source of opioids for high-risk …
LOS ANGELES, April 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — One of the most common misconceptions about men and women who abuse prescription opioid drugs is that they get those drugs from friends or relatives. Now, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed alarming new evidence that those at highest risk of opioid overdose are just as likely to obtain opiate drugs from …
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Mountainside Treatment Center Tackles Sharp Rise in Connecticut Heroin Abuse
Mountainside Treatment Center Tackles Sharp Rise in Connecticut Heroin Abuse
With heroin abuse an urgent health crisis that has Connecticut in its grip, the new detoxification program, Mountainside Detox, is being created to alleviate the mounting need for additional treatment services in the state starting in late spring. (PRWeb May 06, 2014) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/05/prweb11807499.htm
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The changing face of heroin abuse: Martha's story
Heroin has been making headlines in the United States as more and more people find themselves addicted to the dangerous opiate.
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Hallucinating Away a Heroin Addiction
This junkie is about to begin a three-day, neo-African, sometimes-terrifying, ritualistic trip. Can it help her get clean?
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Save Lives by Educating on Dangers of Heroin: Your Say
Save lives by educating on dangers of heroin: Your Say
Let's put medicine where judgment and punishment have failed. — Rapid Opiate Detox. While we concern ourselves with illegal heroin dealers, our legal heroin dealer, Big Pharma, is pushing its synthetic heroin daily, and no one has anything to say …
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Novel Nonopioid Approach Promising for Opioid Dependence – Medscape
Novel Nonopioid Approach Promising for Opioid Dependence – Medscape
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Novel Nonopioid Approach Promising for Opioid Dependence
Medscape ORLANDO, Florida ? A novel approach to opioid detoxification that does not involve the use of opioids may be superior to a protocol that includes buprenorphine. The results of a new study show that the combination of tizanidine (Zanaflex, Acorda … |
Save lives by educating on dangers of heroin: Your Say – USA TODAY
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Save lives by educating on dangers of heroin: Your Say
USA TODAY Let's put medicine where judgment and punishment have failed. — Rapid Opiate Detox. While we concern ourselves with illegal heroin dealers, our legal heroin dealer, Big Pharma, is pushing its synthetic heroin daily, and no one has anything to say … |
Fairfax mother of young heroin addict: ‘There were clues. But we had no clue.’ – Washington Post
Fairfax Mother of Young Heroin Addict: ‘There Were Clues. but We Had No Clue.’ – Washington Post
Fairfax mother of young heroin addict: ‘There were clues. But we had no clue.’ – Washington Post
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Fairfax mother of young heroin addict: 'There were clues. But we had no clue.'
Washington Post A few nights later, Brennan was in a detox program in Chantilly. And Walker, 27, was dead. He'd taken one last hit, in a bathroom of his family's home in Springfield, and collapsed with the needle still in his arm. The sentencing last week of a D.C … |
Save lives by educating on dangers of heroin: Your Say – USA TODAY
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Save lives by educating on dangers of heroin: Your Say
USA TODAY Let's put medicine where judgment and punishment have failed. — Rapid Opiate Detox. While we concern ourselves with illegal heroin dealers, our legal heroin dealer, Big Pharma, is pushing its synthetic heroin daily, and no one has anything to say … |
The Safe Implementation of a Prison-Based Methadone Maintenance Programme …
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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