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Interview With a Methadone Addict Part II
2008-05-01 19:42:00 A few weeks ago, I posted an interview here with a man who was on methadone maintenance. It garnered quite a few responses, and so he asked me to follow up and let you know what?s happening with him. To preserve his anonymity, I?ll call him Smith.
By: Suboxone Blog
3 Ways to Save a Narcotics Anonymous Meeting
2008-04-25 20:13:00 When you?re undergoing an outpatient treatment using Suboxone or methadone, it?s important that you find your resources for support wherever you can. One of the most common ways people choose to do that is to take advantage of the many 12-step support groups like Narcotics Anonymous. Free of charge with meetings every day of the week and, in many towns, many times a day, there really isn?t a more convenient or cheaper way to get the help you need.
Interview With a Methadone Mommy
2008-04-12 02:59:00 Part three in our interview series checks in with a mother who?s on methadone. A heroin-free addict, our methadone mama went through pregnancy on the juice. She talks about what it was like and gives some advice to other methadone mamas.
Larry Birkhead: Anna Nicole Smith's Son Stole Her Methadone
2008-03-18 15:49:00 Anna Nicole Smith's son Daniel stole some of her Methadone months before his death, Larry Birkhead testified at an inquest into the boy's death in the Bahamas today. Birkhead said he reviewed surveillance tapes after some of Anna Nicole's Methadone went missing in April 2006. Footage showed Daniel and his friends stealing it, he testified, according ...
By: Mochizuki
Anna Nicole Smith?s Son Stole Her Methadone
2008-03-18 08:52:00 Anna Nicole Smith?s son Daniel stole some of her Methadone months before his death, Larry Birkhead testified at an inquest into the boy?s death in the Bahamas today. Birkhead said he reviewed surveillance tapes after some of Anna Nicole?s Methadone went missing in April 2006. Footage showed Daniel and his friends stealing it, he testified, according ...
An Interview With a Methadone Addict
2008-03-12 22:56:00 Personal stories are really important when it comes to drug withdrawal and addiction treatment. Each individual?s circumstance is affected by and affects his or her drug use and recovery. Here?s an interview with someone who started experimenting with heroin in his teens and became an addict in his early 20s. He?s now 40 years old, a heroin-free junky on methadone. Here?s what he has to say:
Protect Yourself From a Methadone Overdose
2008-02-19 20:57:00 Now, I really mean it this time: this is the last I?m going to say about overdoses for awhile. I thought I?d pretty much gotten it out of my system with the urban myths about overdoses and the tips on how to avoid an overdose and how to know one when you see it. But yesterday, someone I know quite well overdosed unintentionally. They have had a lifetime methadone maintenance slot for years now, and if ever there was a success story to support methadone maintenance, he was it: after a lifetime of being a street junkie addicted to heroin and doing crimes to pay for his habit, he?s managed to hold onto the same job (even move up in the company), married a great gal and had a baby with her. Then yesterday, he had a migraine, happened to run into an associate from the old days who offered him a pill to wipe out the headache. He went home, had a couple of beers and woke up two days later in a hospital.
Amy Winehouse Is On Methadone
2008-02-19 15:54:00 Amy Winehouse has started taking methadone as a means to get well for the BRIT Awards. The troubled singer is expected to be in top form at Wednesday night’s ceremony. She has agreed to perform her single “Love Is A Losing Game,” as well as “Valerie” with Mark Ronson. A source tells the Sunday Mirror, “Amy would ...
By: The.DERRTY Truth
5 Risk Factors for Opiate Overdose
2008-02-14 16:49:00 So to continue this string of posts in my self-proclaimed Overdose Awareness Week, today we are going to tackle the topic of risk factors. Knowing the risks that you are taking is crucial when it comes to preventing an undesired outcome, and with opiate overdose, there are 5 specific things that are red letter risks. Want to avoid an opiate overdose? Then pay attention.
Real Drug Rehab, Not Methadone, Gives Addicts Their Lives Back
2008-02-10 06:41:00 The makers and advocates of the prescription painkiller and narcotic addiction replacement drug methadone can add yet another damning scientific review to their burgeoning collection of methadone mayhem studies. A study just in from the Oregon Health and Science University shows that sudden cardiac death is a risk even when the drug is used at "appropriate" doses to treat pain or drug addiction. This reinforces the popular view that the opiate addicts and chronic pain patients who take methadone every day should be in a safe medical drug detox or drug rehab program instead of risking their lives with methadone."For years the media has been reporting the growing methadone death-toll, but often incorrectly associates methadone replacement with drug rehab - a misnomer, since methadone for addicts is just the opposite of drug rehab. Addicts remain addicts, and instead of heroin they're hooked on methadone. Most stories report deaths from methadone overdose, but the Oregon study reporte...
Methadone is Deadly Even When Taken as Prescribed
2008-02-05 06:04:00 There?s a new study out by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University that doesn?t paint methadone in a very pretty light. It seems that through their work, they have found that methadone can be deadly even when it is taken as prescribed whether the goal is pain management or drug addiction. Even at therapeutic levels, methadone can be the cause of sudden cardiac death, according to The American Journal of Medicine.
Methadone
2008-02-05 05:04:00 Why are we seeing 20 year old people with no history of trauma, cancer, congenital abnormalities or any significant medical findings on METHADONE for back pain?Why are said people also unemployed and collecting welfare or disability?WHAT IS WRONG HERE PEOPLE?
By: ERnursey
Washington DC Will Invest $650,000 In Needle-Exchange Programs
2008-01-08 20:13:00 Much-needed needle-exchange programs are finally making their way into our nation?s capitol?legally, that is, and fully sanctioned and funded by the city. According to the Washington Post, Washington DC plans to invest about $650,000 in needle exchange programs.
By: Suboxone Blog
Deadly Mechanism of Methadone
2007-12-29 19:36:00 In 2004, more than 3800 people died from methadone overdose in the United States, according to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Every year since, overdoses due to methadone have continued to increase by about 20 percent. Once the gold standard in drug addiction treatment, methadone has quickly become one of the most commonly abused prescription opiates on the black market and by legal prescription for chronic pain.
By: Suboxone Blog
Methadone Abuse Worse Than Abuse of Other Prescription Opiates
2007-12-25 09:32:00 It used to be that methadone was considered the drug of choice when it came to treating opiate addiction. However, with its increasing prevalence as a treatment for chronic pain, methadone has joined the ranks of other commonly abused opioid-based drugs like heroin, Vicodin, OxyContin and others. More than any other prescription painkiller, the rate of overdose by methadone has skyrocketed over the past five years. The rate of increase is about 390 percent according to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). In 13 percent of overdose fatalities that were reported in the United States, methadone was a contributing or sole cause. Only cocaine kills more people than methadone. Methadone is far less expensive than other opiate pain relievers like OxyContin, so more and more doctors are prescribing it for that reason. Those who are addicted to opiate pain relievers also resort to methadone pills when they run out of their regular, more expensive prescriptions. The Drug En...
By: Suboxone Blog
Utah Doctor Charged for Illegal Painkiller Prescriptions
2007-12-24 19:05:00 More doctors are falling in the Federal search for those involved in illegal trafficking of prescription painkillers. And as we have seen before, doctors are not immune. One of the latest to fall is Dr. Warren Stack of Utah who was charged with 18 criminal counts that include illegal distribution of a controlled substance, conspiracy, health care fraud and money laundering. Up to 80 people a day received prescription opiate medications from Dr. Stack and five of them died because of it.
Methadone Overdose Deaths on the Rise
2007-12-23 21:43:00 Methadone prescriptions are on the rise and so too is the commonality of methadone overdose and death, according to the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC). There are two reasons that methadone is prescribed: pain management and opiate drug addiction maintenance. It was rarely used for either purpose until the early ?80s when it was more commonly prescribed as a drug addiction treatment and OxyContin, its chemical cousin, was the prescription of choice for pain management. This quickly changed: the latest report from the NDIC says that methadone prescriptions have increased 715 percent in five years.
By: Suboxone Blog
Anna Nicole: Prescription Painkiller Overdose
2007-12-19 21:04:00 When they did the autopsy on Anna Nicole Smith last year, Florida officials found the cause to be prescription painkiller overdose. Some of the nine drugs found in her system included methadone as well as a number of anti-anxiety opiate medications. Her son, Daniel, died a few days early, also a victim of prescription opiate medication overdose, methadone and other anti-depression drugs.
United States Will Support Pilot Methadone Program In Vietnam
2007-12-14 17:09:00 A new methadone program is slated to start up in Vietnam after the new year, according to a conference reported on by AFP/Yahoo! News. The goal of the conference and the methadone initiative is to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS among injection drug users (IDUs), and the United States is in full support.
Researcher Gets $2.9 Million To Study Substance Abuse Treatment
2007-12-09 18:47:00 Researcher David A. Fiellin, M.D., at Yale School of Medicine is one of the latest recipients of a National Institute on Drug Abuse grant. Fiellin will spend the five-year grant of $2.9 million to continue his research on substance abuse.
Buprenorphine for Relapse Prevention
2007-11-08 20:31:00 Yes, buprenorphine is a great way to recover from drug addiction and detox of prescription painkillers or other opioid-based drugs without dealing with withdrawal symptoms. But in the world of treatment, relapse prevention is a huge part of healing and maintaining a drug free life. Subutex and Suboxone are great for that, too.
Methadone Versus Buprenorphine
2007-11-05 22:56:00 Substitution treatment for drug addiction is based on replacing the drug of choice with a one that mimics its actions in the body and the brain. You trick the body into thinking that a less harmful drug is the drug of choice so that you don?t go into withdrawal. Meanwhile, you are, in essence, trading down your addiction to a drug that doesn?t tear up your body as badly or carry the risks that other methods of drug ingestion might. The two that do the job: methadone and buprenorphine in the form of Subutex and Suboxone.
Methadone Treatment in Kyrgyzstan
2007-08-18 06:18:00 The Methadone Treatment in Kyrgyzstan can be done using the various researched techniques like the Seventh Sky, Vow of Silence, or the Stress Energy Psychotherapy and Pilgrimage to the Sacred Mountain.
Methadone Addiction Treatment
2007-08-18 06:18:00 Here there are certain levels that Dr Nazaraliev has developed and structured so that the Methadone Addiction Treatment.
Inaction as Methadone Toll Rises
2007-06-07 22:58:00 ?Methadone related deaths continue their upward trend in many areas across the Country. Currently Methadone is the #2 Killer Drug in the United States?, say HARMD, Inc. (Helping America Reduce Methadone Deaths). ?We’re most concerned that Methadone deaths in United States have risen 389.7% from 1999 to 2004, and that this epidemic is ongoing?, as heard from members ...
Drug Rehab - Dangers Of Methadone
2007-06-05 14:00:00 Doctors, who prescribe methadone for pain, are usually not as well educated in drug abuse, as those who work in addiction, and consequently their patients are not well informed. With the increased use of methadone, especially with uneducated users, comes the increase of related accidental deaths - frequently the leading cause of overdose in some states.
Drug Rehab - Dangers Of Methadone
2007-03-28 14:00:00 Doctors, who prescribe methadone for pain, are usually not as well educated in drug abuse, as those who work in addiction, and consequently their patients are not well informed. With the increased use of methadone, especially with uneducated users, comes the increase of related accidental deaths - frequently the leading cause of overdose in some states.
Video: Anna Nicole Get?s Hot With Methadone Doc!
2007-02-22 18:21:02 Was Anna Nicole Smith using sex and fame to keep her methadone fix coming? Hmmm, uh yes. (Hey, what else do you do when you’re famous?) A video has surfaced of Anna Nicole gettin’ freaky with her doc at a bar in Hollywood. Her making out with the shirtless doc is not very shocking, but the fact that both the dudes who are fighting over her child are hanging with them kind of is. Check it out here: TMZ Anna Nicole Video.
By: THE RAD REPORT
ANNA FRIDGE: Methadone and Slim-Fast
2007-02-12 05:12:02 TMZ has obtained a photo of the inside of Anna Nicole Smith's refrigerator taken after she died, and the contents are shocking on several levels. TMZ has 100% verified the authenticity of this photo. The refrigerator, which was inside Anna Nicole's bedroom in the Bahamas, contained methadone (5 mg per 5 ml). Methadone was the same drug found in Daniels body during his autopsy.Law enforcement sources in the Bahamas tell TMZ that at least one witness has come forward and said Howard K. Stern supplied Daniel with methadone just before he died, and flushed the remaining stash down the toilet. That witness is expected to testify next month at the coroner's inquest into Daniel's death.
By: Juicy News
Drug Rehab Methadone News
2006-11-23 22:12:02 Are you losing a loved one to drug or alcohol addiction?
Methadone pioneer Vincent Dole dies at 93
(AP)
2006-08-09 15:39:02 AP - Dr. Vincent P. Dole, whose research in the 1960s established that methadone could be used to treat heroin addiction, died Tuesday. He was 93.
Methadone: To Take Or Not To Take This Anti-Narcotic Drug
1970-01-01 00:59:00 Methadone is an Opioid. Methadone is synthetic by nature. Methadone is also an analgesic. Methadone is basically recommended for the chronic drug abusers. Methadone has been found to be an ideal medication for the treatment of addiction from narcotic substances.
Methadone A Program In Shambles
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Opiate addiction is one of the hardest addictions to overcome The physical withdrawals can be so intense that many fail or find themselves rushing to the methadone clinic or signing up for the new wonder drug Subaxone
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