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Methadone clinics don’t attract crime, study finds – Baltimore Sun
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Methadone clinics are often seen as the bad neighbor nobody wants. Residents concerned about crime and other quality-of-life issues often protest if they even hear word of a methadone clinic, which treats those addicted to heroin and other …
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Laurens couple files lawsuit in son’s methadone overdose – Macon Telegraph
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Two years ago, their only child died of a methadone overdose in Savannah. Andrew Glenn “Drew” Currie was not a patient in a drug treatment facility, but his parents are convinced the dose that killed him came from a clinic in Garden City.
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Rockland methadone clinic still a work in progress – Bangor Daily News
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Methadone clinics don’t attract crime, study finds – Baltimore Sun (blog)
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Methadone clinics don't attract crime, study finds Baltimore Sun (blog) By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun Residents concerned about crime and other quality-of-life issues often protest if they even hear word of a methadone clinic, which treats those addicted to heroin and other opiates, is considering moving into the …

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Malibu Horizon’s Addiction Treatment Innovator Dr. AR Mohammad Recognized As … – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
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Malibu Horizon's Addiction Treatment Innovator Dr. AR Mohammad Recognized As … San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Though patients can obtain buprenorphine at a pharmacy, they must go to clinics daily to get methadone. And, unlike methadone and buprenorphine, Vivitrol isn't an opioid but a long-acting form of naltrexone, which blocks opioids. and more »

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Crime of the week: Suspect still at large in robbery of Missoula methadone clinic – Missoulian
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Missoula authorities are still seeking a suspect in the robbery of a methadone clinic on Saturday, April 14. At about 8 a.m., a male entered Community Medical Services at 715 Kensington Ave. He confronted two female employees with a normal-sized folding …
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City planners recommend methadone clinics in B-4 – Standard Banner
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Jefferson City Planners are recommending that pain and methadone clinics be restricted to the town’s B-4 “business park” zone. The proposal, which will be taken up by city council next month, goes in a slightly different direction than …
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State rejects second Duluth methadone clinic – Duluth News Tribune
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Buprenorphine versus methadone use in opiate detoxification, are there other factors that should be considered?
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Br J Gen Pract. 2012 Feb; 62(595): 68-9
Bhupal HK

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Pilot trial of a recovery management intervention for heroin addicts released from compulsory rehabilitation in China.
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J Subst Abuse Treat. 2012 Apr 18;
Hser YI, Fu L, Wu F, Du J, Zhao M

China faces the challenge of dual epidemics of drug use and HIV/AIDS. Despite the high relapse rate among heroin addicts released from compulsory rehabilitation facilities, there are few programs available in China to assist these addicts in the community. We pilot-tested in China a Recovery Management Intervention (RMI) program designed to facilitate early detection of relapse and prompt linkage from compulsory rehabilitation to the community and, if participants relapse, to community-based methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) programs. One hundred heroin addicts were randomly assigned to either the Standard Care group (n=50) or the RMI group (n=50). At the end of the 3-month trial, participants in the RMI group, relative to the standard care group, demonstrated positive outcomes in recidivism due to relapse (0 vs. 6%, p=.08; d=0.354), MMT participation (8% vs. 0, p=0.06; d=0.417), and employment (33% vs. 2%, p<.001; d=0.876), although no difference was found in urine testing results (8.5% vs. 8.7%; d=0.013) among interviewed participants. These pilot study results were based on a small sample size and short-term observation, suggesting the need for more research to further improve and test RMI effectiveness with larger samples over a longer period of time in order to provide evidence in support of RMI as an effective strategy for community reintegration among addicts released from rehabilitation facilities in China.
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Methadone clinics feeling pain of state budget cuts – Bangor Daily News
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Jessica Payne got hooked on drugs at just 16 years old. A prescription for Percocet to treat her chronic pain and a birth defect in her hands opened the door to what would stretch into more than a decade of addiction. “I would do whatever was …
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Another group wants to open Duluth methadone treatment clinic – Duluth News Tribune
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With a second methadone treatment center for opiate addicts in Duluth about two months from opening, according to its director, another group hopes to open one as well. And it’s a clinic St. Louis County leaders might support. The Center for …
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Duluth City Council Opposes Proposed Methadone Clinic – msnbc.com
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Proposed Duluth methadone clinic loses Minnesota’s OK – Duluth News Tribune
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The Minnesota Department of Human Services commissioner has overruled a previous decision by her department, denying the Superior Treatment Center a “determination of need” — a required component to open a second methadone treatment clinic …
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What happens if people do not have access to a methadone clinic? – Owen Sound Sun Times
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Perhaps the best compliment I was ever paid about my column was from a man I did not know during a chance encounter in a store. He said, “I read your column. I don’t always agree with you, but you always make me think”. That is all I ever hoped to do with …
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