BRIDGEPORT Rant OPIATE’S/PROG’s

BRIDGEPORT Rant OPIATE’S/PROG’s – Talk a little about opiate addiction and the treatment I utilize. Anybody want more info email me. Bus fare increases on Monday Oct. 6 I didnt get into the science of addiction, or have the time to do very much of anything in depth on addiction. Just a couple quick stories of my own, that finally got my eyes opened. I just now see the light, after 40 years

Addiction Treatment In Wallaceburg

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“They've had to drive to Chatham or Sarnia, in some cases to Windsor, to get treatment for their opiate addiction. And for some people that's been impossible and they've not been able to access treatment at all.” Opiates include oxycontin, morphine and …
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For uninsured, methadone treatment hard to secure

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Vincent Dole, a doctor who led the development of methadone treatment in the 1960s, observed that opiate addiction was uniquely intractable; without a pharmaceutical aid, he concluded, it was extremely difficult for patients to continue heroin-free for …
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When the addiction cure is another addiction

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Denise and I, for instance, would have been better served if the treatment staff had approached us as candidates for "addiction syndrome", as opposed to an alcoholic and an opiate addict. "Addiction syndrome" [PDF] is the idea that common pathways …
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Heroin now the new Oxy: Peterborough police

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Health Canada replaced Oxycontin with OxyNEO, hoping to change the face of opiate addiction in the province. "People are now substituting their addictions for Oxycontin with heroin," he explains. "We recognized earlier and we knew when Oxycontin came …
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