Ex-users help heroin addicts out of death spiral
Ex-users help heroin addicts out of death spiral
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The center provides opioid addiction treatment. Patients seeking to recover are sometimes prescribed methadone, a synthetic narcotic taken once a day “to stop withdrawal symptoms and reduce opiate cravings.” Some patients are put on suboxone to help …
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Cheap Crack Pipes, Free Heroin, and Free Booze: The Evidence for Helping …
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From needle exchange programs for HIV prevention to providing heroin to addicts, and from supervised injecting rooms to “wet houses” where homeless alcoholics are given free booze, approaches that seem to “enable” users are in fact effective in helping …
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For Maine babies exposed to drugs, disadvantages mount after leaving hospital
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Because of those risks, pregnant mothers addicted to opiates are encouraged to enter a methadone or buprenorphine treatment program, rather than wean off their narcotics, he said. Brown and researchers at the University of Maine have studied the health …
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