Posts Tagged ‘heroin addicts’

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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Drug Abuse Awareness – San Clemente Times
Filed under: Painkiller Abuse

Drug Abuse Awareness San Clemente Times Photo by Stacie N. Galang This is the first in a two-part series examining the impact of drug abuse in San Clemente and the surrounding community. Please see next week's edition to read more on the subject. For a brief moment, James Kennedy became …

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More suburban teens turning from pills to heroin, authorities say – The Republic
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More suburban teens turning from pills to heroin, authorities say The Republic Many of these new heroin addicts started as teens, abusing prescription painkillers they found in their homes, say law enforcement and public health officials. The transition from getting high on mom's leftover meds to being a strung-out heroin addict … and more »

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Azed slip No 2,064 – The Guardian
Filed under: Methadone Detox

(d in col + rut (rev.) + key). 2 A. Plumb (27 South Street, Crowland, Lincolnshire PE6 0AH): Duly rock with the shakes after removal of heroin produces withdrawal symptoms (anag. less H). 3 M. Owen (31 Springfield Road, Cambridge CB4 1AD …
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Misery among heroin addicts in Afghanistan – CBS News
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But methadone is available for just a fraction of … The only other option here is to go cold turkey at a detox clinic. Under the bridge one morning, Marx saw an addict collapse from an overdose. Abdulrahim jumped in to resuscitate the …
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Minnesota heroin addicts hooked via prescription opiates – Marketplace.publicradio.org
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Putting lives back together – Signal
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Putting lives back together Signal It's common for heroin addicts to treat their withdrawal symptoms through opiate detox programs that involve medication. Among the options is methadone, a legal opiate. Methadone eliminates the cravings and allows addicts to function in everyday life …

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A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012 – TIME
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A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012 TIME Leonard Chess paid her $ 170 a week, plus $ 50 for her methadone. In 1973 she got a Christmas-New Year's gig at the Burning Spear in Chicago. “I'd sing some old blues and some new R&B,” she recalled in A Rage to Survive. “I'd sing my heart out and … and more »

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Kick Heroin in the News

Kick Heroin: Occupy protesters defying eviction notices
The occupy movement has valid points, however, the movement has too become occupied by stoners and heroin addicts and therefore the message has been lost with the main stream. Too bad it has no leadership or speaking with one voice because the fringe …
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Kick Heroin: The Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood
I still get a kick out of it. AVC: A lot of those '80s bands have been getting a lot of attention lately, in part because of Michael Azerrad's book Our Band Could Be Your Life. Have you guys been swept up in that, or do you see yourselves as separate …
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Methadone And Pregnancy in the News

Methadone And Pregnancy: Baby could fall through hole in safety net
It's hard to imagine, say, heroin addicts relying on the methadone program to do the same. But we need to treat opiate addicts. And people with HIV/AIDS. And and and and. If there is a discouraging note in the parents' activism for the cleft program it …
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Methadone And Pregnancy: As MMA continues global growth, veteran manager Alex Davis warns of ego's ugly …
Measuring too high during TRT therapy is basically like getting high on the **** they give you at the methadone clinic. It's like needing to go on anti-depressants because you have been crushing up raw lithium and snorting it. It's ****ing comical. …
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