Articles, tagged with "methadone", page 5
17th April 2009
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Author:
deepak kulkarni
16th April 2009
As the death toll from methadone soars across the country and methadone addiction continues to rise, the need for effective treatment has never been more important.
State death statistics across the country are showing that prescription drugs continue ...
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Author:
Rod MacTaggart
09th April 2009
Although drug-free rehab is taken for granted as the means to recovery, this was not always the case. In the past, the use of substitute drugs has been a traditional means of treatment for a person suffering from substance addiction. During a time when th...
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Author:
Narcanon Tailor
04th April 2009
For opiate addicts, such as those addicted to heroin, opium or synthetic opiates such as hydrocodone, methadone has allowed them to cease use of the addictive substance without painful withdrawal symptoms while they are in rehab. Once a person in rehab ha...
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Author:
addictioprofessor
04th April 2009
Methadone is a synthetic opiod, rigorously used as a pain reliever and in treating addiction to narcotics. In the case of morphine or heroin abuse, methadone occupies the opiod receptor in the brain and stabilizes it against the addiction to those opiates...
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Author:
Stephen Jhonson
31st March 2009
The result of so-called 'treatment' for opioid addiction with methadone is simply a life-long methadone addiction. Real treatment means helping opioid addicts become drug free, and such treatment now is available.
New medical protocols have been develo...
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Author:
Rod MacTaggart
30th March 2009
The Obama administration and all state legislatures could learn a lesson from Ireland, where John Curran, Ireland's minister for drugs strategy, has called for a review of methadone addiction, and how effective methadone programs actually are at getting p...
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Author:
Rod MacTaggart
25th March 2009
There's nothing like listening to the screams of a newborn infant forced to withdraw from methadone to change your mind about so-called ‘harm reduction' programs like free methadone for opioid-addicted women.
Harm reduction -- providing addicts with ...
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Author:
Rod MacTaggart
20th March 2009
Scientists say they are close to learning how to make methadone prescribing less dangerous, but methadone addiction, injuries and deaths continue to soar.
Studies at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Washin...
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Author:
Rod MacTaggart
17th March 2009
You must have thought about what does drug and alcohol rehab really means? These words are common in media, in our schools, in government, but what is a rehab for a drug addicted individual. In the simplest language drug rehab means withdrawing drugs and...
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Author:
Alien
17th March 2009
No alcoholic can ever leave the addiction without medicinal help, who so ever you are, however you believe that you can control yourself; you can only achieve long lasting withdrawal if u join a professional rehab center. You should not expect an alcohol ...
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Author:
Alien
16th March 2009
Drug testing is the chemical identification of any drug presence in the specimen. Urine drug testing is the simplest drug testing technique among other drug testing methods with many other benefits. Urine drug testing emerged rapidly, and accepted widely ...
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Author:
Stephen Jhonson
10th March 2009
People trapped by prescription drug addiction are finding that detox programs designed for their unique metabolic and health needs can ease withdrawal symptoms and make recovery a reachable goal.
Almost anyone dependent on drugs will tell you they woul...
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Author:
Rod MacTaggart
06th March 2009
OxyContin addiction is epidemic in our society, and opting for methadone 'therapy' to replace the narcotic is just jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
The more OxyContin a person takes, the more tolerant their bodies become to the addictive narc...
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Author:
Rod MacTaggart
04th March 2009
Governments, like individuals, choose their priorities when it comes to spending money. Is your state doing all it can to help prevent prescription drug abuse?
Dealers who sell prescription drugs to our family members often get their supplies by doctor...
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Author:
Gloria MacTaggart