Best Practices in Buprenorphine Inductions – Considering the Community.wmv

Best Practices in Buprenorphine Inductions – Considering the Community.wmv – Providers from the Institute for Family Health in New York discuss the integration of primary care and substance abuse treatment and the role buprenorphine i…

New England editorial roundup

Filed under: opiate addicts

Maine is one of the hubs of prescription-painkiller abuse in the United States, so it's no surprise that high adult opiate addiction rates have led to an increase in drug-dependent newborns. More than 160 Maine newborns were affected by drugs in 2005 …
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Heroin: Deadly drug on the upswing locally

Filed under: opiate addicts

“I would say probably about 80 to 85 percent of our calls have heroin and opiates and pain pills,” Matherne said. Terrebonne Drug Court Treatment Director Clarence McGuire Jr. has seen a similar movement in his work counseling addicts convicted of …
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When horse rides you

Filed under: opiate addicts

… Herald-Palladium | 0 comments. ST. JOSEPH – Nick's life was spiraling downward. Left jobless and sometimes homeless by a heroin addiction that seemed to consume everything, not even a friend's overdose death was enough to make him quit the drug.
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