Methadone treatment keeps you caged-in – Dr. Randall S. Bock explains to a former methadone patient that methadone’s not giving people maximum freedom over their conditions.

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Take-Home Induction of Buprenorphine Feasible, Safe
Most patients had previously been treated with medications for opioid dependence, including 331 (68%) who had been receiving buprenorphine and 260 (54%), methadone. All patients received an instructional handout, a 1-week written prescription for …
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Novel Nonopioid Approach Promising for Opioid Dependence
"We were trying to find a way of dealing with opiate withdrawal and facilitate people to the next stage of addiction treatment," lead author Gregory Rudolf, MD, from the Swedish Addiction Recovery Service, in Seattle, Washington, told Medscape Medical …
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Review: Six Women New Play Festival at the MAT
Here two women (Sallie Walker and Jessica Weaver) contemplate their lives while waiting in a methadone rehab clinic, though neither are there for treatment. The elder — a snarly, homeless combination of King Lear and Granny Clampitt of The Beverly …
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Treatment providers worry Vermont's rapid intervention bill will flood their …
ADAP treatment chief Jackie Corbally said ADAP is also trying to determine the impact S.295 could have on its programs, which include designated agencies as well as methadone treatment clinics and inpatient facilities such as Maple Leaf Farm. There is …
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