Methadone Treatment: Boston to Shutter Drug Treatment Facility – Boston Globe
Boston to shutter drug treatment facility – Boston Globe
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Boston to shutter drug treatment facility
Boston Globe In a 6-to-1 vote last week, Boston's Board of Health decided to end more than 40 years of city-run methadone treatment, which uses the narcotic to wean addicts from heroin and other opiates. The addiction services will now be handled by Community … |
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Boston’s only public methadone clinic may shut – Boston Globe
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Boston's only public methadone clinic may shut
Boston Globe Shutting the clinic, which has offered methadone to opiate addicts for 40 years, would mean that hundreds of clients served every day at the Frontage Road site and at a separate counseling center in the South End would be treated by private providers, … |
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Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County – WZZM
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Fatal methadone overdoses soar in Kent County
WZZM Would seem to make more sense to substitute medical marijuana for methadone to treat addicts. Methadone can be just as lethal as the drug for which it's being substituted. I saw far more economic and personal damage from alcohol than from pot during my … |
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Americas New Painkiller Methadone –
More Methadone Treatment Information…
Methadone for pain is nothing new. It has been around for decades for pain
and opiate addiction. Most people look at it as just a heroin substitute
drug or methadone maintenance therapy drug for opiate addiction but it is
also used for pain and works great for some people because of it’s long
half life and the power of the drug it works well for some people in
chronic pain. It is also a lot cheaper then a lot of newer pain meds such
as oxycontin, opana etc.?