Archive for the ‘Opiate Addiction Treatment’ Category

A better pill to swallow – Sydney Morning Herald
Filed under: Opiate Addiction

Using methadone as a substitute for opiate addiction is like weaning vampires off human blood and on to artificial plasma. Yet it has given millions of addicts new leases on life, a means for avoiding the pushers, the pills, the needles and the pricks that …
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Lawmakers have chance to enact life-saving measures – Boston Globe
Filed under: Opiate Addiction

THANK YOU for your Nov. 27 editorial “In fighting heroin overdoses, a key ally is often overlooked,’’ which emphasized the value of saving lives from opiate addiction by featuring two important public health proposals being considered by the Legislature.
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City sees changing view on methadone – Rutland Herald
Filed under: Opiate Addiction

What changed? In the view of those involved in both clinic proposals, it’s what has been learned locally and statewide during the last decade about opiate addiction that has shifted views. While the sale and use of heroin was a growing concern …
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Maine Voices For Recovery- Steve

Public Service Announcement. Successful treatment of opiate addiction with methadone maintenance treatment.

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2012 Republican race for county prosecutor begins – Lancaster Eagle Gazette.com
Filed under: Opiate Addiction

“For the first time in over 30 years, the voters get to hire their new prosecuting attorney at a time when our county is facing an opiate addiction crisis while confronting the resulting increase in crime related to this drug activity …
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Drug treatment center unveiled in Rutland – WCAX
Filed under: Opiate Addiction

Health officials in Rutland unveiled plans Tuesday night — for a new drug treatment center. The news comes as opiate addiction takes a tighter hold on the area. At a public meeting in Rutland, a panel of mental health experts, doctors, and law enforcement …
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Senator Sanborn Interviews Families Against Narcotics

Please visit www.FamiliesAgainstNarcotics.org to find out more about FAN and what we do to make all the difference in peoples’ lives!

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Celebrities that paid the price of addiction in 2011 – Examiner
Filed under: Opiate Addiction

Dr. Drew Pinsky said Conaway “was a terribly complex case with chronic pain, opiate addiction and severe childhood trauma..” He died at the age of 60. NHL’s Derek Boogaard is just one more death too many lost to overdose of deadly drugs like Oxycontin and alcohol.
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Harvest Rain ~ “I Call Her Cloudgirl”

“I Call Her Cloudgirl” is a song about the metaphysical horrors and soul-destroying-poison of opiate addiction. The song is featured on the Harvest Rain album “Nights’ Glow.”

Male Impulsivity & Addiction Linked to One Gene – msnbc.com
Filed under: Opiate Addiction

Addiction and impulsivity have a genetic link in men, according to a new study. The gene, a snippet of DNA called NRXN3, has previously been linked to nicotine dependence, as well as alcohol dependence, opiate addiction and obesity. The new research …
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