Prescription Drug Abuse Summit- Treatment and Prevention Perspective- 02

Prescription Drug Abuse Summit- Treatment and Prevention Perspective- 02 –

Bigger Threat: Miley or Synthetic Drugs?

Filed under: prescription drug addiction treatment

Television about methamphetamine crimes rivet the nation, while the same citizens are blind to the reality of meth in their communities, including crime, addiction, contamination, overdose and endangered children. Doctors in Arizona and Illinois have …
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As heroin use increases, treatment funds go down

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As the county's heroin problem has increased, money for Thurston's publicly funded drug abuse treatment efforts has decreased. State and federal funding … Currently, about 500 doctors in the state are registered to prescribe the drug. Over the past …
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Price of Addiction: New opioid treatment can work wonders but there are limits …

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Methadone is the best-known treatment for managing opioid addiction, both to heroin and prescription painkillers. But it's not the only one or even the most effective for many addicts. Another drug therapy — buprenorphine, which goes under the brand …
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Oregon Lottery: Readers continue sharing stories of bankruptcy, shame, despair

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But they don't want to treat the problem gamblers because if they do, they will lose the very people they depend upon. Oregon should have never gone down this slippery slope. Beaverton man, 33. How much …. programs they referred me to in the Portland …
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