Opiate News

 
TMZ.com
'Teen Mom' Amber Portwood -- I Need Prison to Save My Life
TMZ.com
Sources tell us, immediately following the reality TV star's incarceration, her last drug test came back positive for the opiate-based drug Suboxone ... a highly addictive drug similar to Morphine. Law enforcement sources tell us, Portwood admitted she ...

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Methadone clinics up and running in Dunmore
Scranton Times-Tribune
Massachusetts-based Habit OPCO recently opened the clinic, which seeks to reduce a person's dependence on heroin and other opiate drugs through controlled doses of the substitute drug methadone, at 118 Monahan Ave., in the Keystone Industrial Park.

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KPIC
Opiate epidemic: 'People are dying from this, in record numbers'
KPIC
“Half my patients here at Serenity Lane have opiate addiction,” said Dr. Ronald Schwerzler, an addictionologist at Serenity Lane, who oversees around 60 in-patients at any one time. “People are dying from this, in record numbers,” he said.

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ABC News
Abuse of Opiates Soars in Pregnant Women
New York Times
The fast-growing abuse of prescription drugs has reached maternity wards in hospitals across the country, with the number of pregnant women addicted to opiate drugs — and the number of babies born experiencing withdrawal symptoms — rising sharply ...
Infants Born Addicted to Opiates Tripled in Past DecadeBusinessWeek
Pregnant mothers, newborns addicted to opiates increases dramatically over ...Fox News
More Babies Born Addicted to OpiatesABC News
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Sarah Mulvey coroner reaches verdict of suicide by opiate toxicity
The Guardian
A verdict of suicide by opiate toxicity has been returned by the coroner investigating the death of Sarah Mulvey, the Channel 4 executive who died in January 2010. Delivering the verdict at St Pancras coroner's court, Dr Shirley Radcliffe said that the ...

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Drunk, stoned and criminal in Australia
New Zealand Herald
The research has also shown Australian criminals are heavier users of opiates and methamphetamine than Americans, and that Australia has more clandestine meth laboratories than most other countries in the world. Sydney is the opiate and cocaine capital ...

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MLive.com
Bay County drug court: Opiate addict relieved his toddlers will know 'the ...
MLive.com
By Cole Waterman | cwaterma@mlive.com BAY CITY, MI — For the past decade, John has been plagued by a virulent opiate addiction. The urge to feed his habit led him to crime — larceny, forgery, breaking into homes — in an effort to make it through ...