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Methadone: '60s Treatment for Drug Addiction Comes With Deadly Risks Today

Methadone: '60s treatment for drug addiction comes with deadly risks today

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Methadone, a drug available since the 1960s and deemed by the National Institute of Health and the Centers for Disease Control as “the most effective treatment for opiate addiction,” is in essence a risk-versus-reward system. By: Brandon Stahl, Duluth …
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Drug Treatment Programs Florida – Five Questions to Find the Right Facility

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Despite Drawbacks, Many Consider Methadone the Best Treatment for Opiate

Despite drawbacks, many consider methadone the best treatment for opiate

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a 2002 fact sheet, said when methadone is used to treat opiate addiction, it produces a 30 percent lower death rate than among opiate addicts who are not treated with methadone. It also results in …
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Targacept Ends Development of ADHD Drug

Targacept ends development of ADHD drug

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Targacept Inc. (NASDAQ:TRGT) will no longer develop TC-5619 as a treatment for adults with inattentive-predominant attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, because the drug didn't meet the primary endpoints of a Phase II study. Shares were recently …
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McAlister Institute to Appeal to City Council on Rejected Parolee Program

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The first-time program will assess newly released felons for services, such as drug treatment programs, housing assistance and job training, that are designed to help keep them from reoffending. Parolees eligible for the program are those whose most …
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17 Year Old Brother Ran Away and Is Living in Tent, Strung Out on Drugs.?

Question by : 17 year old brother ran away and is living in tent, strung out on drugs.?
My little brother ran away from my parents home in Texas because he got in trouble there. He came to my house in Georgia, which my mother allowed, and stayed with me. He has now runaway from my house because I found out he was still doing drugs from a urine test I made him do. I did not kick him out, just took away his phone and internet, the next day he ran. and from what I undertsand is living in a tent in the cold somewhere in the woods. My question is what program and/or call to get him help…or get him a drug treatment program or call 911 because he is a runaway. I live in St.Marys ga and im losing sleep every night with worry.

NJ Lags in Program to Ensure Drugs for Psychiatric Patients [The Record

NJ lags in program to ensure drugs for psychiatric patients [The Record

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10–In New York, psychiatric patients with a history of refusing prescribed medications, but who are not so sick that they require hospitalization, can be committed to an outpatient treatment program under a law passed 13 years ago. In all, 44 states …
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Ex-school employee sentenced for providing drugs

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I Want to Know Information Regarding Drug Treatment Programs in Seaford, New York.?

Question by ayana h: I want to know information regarding drug treatment programs in Seaford, New York.?
For this, I would like to find various drug rehabs so that I may be able to know of the different methods that they employ as well as the different principles and approaches that make one drug rehab distinct from another. I was hoping that somebody could tell me how to find different drug rehabs.

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