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Yesterday | Online Sun

Lethal Cocktail Found in Star's Body

MICHAEL Jackson had lethal levels of powerful painkiller Demerol and heroin substitute methadone in his body when he died, The Sun can reveal.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson, Medicine, Medication, Demerol, Meperidine (generic), Xanax, Alprazolam (generic)

Friday | Las Cruces Sun-News

Only methadone clinic in Las Cruces to close

A free training on administering the drug Narcan is being held this morning at Premier Care, 2467 S. Telshor Blvd near Memorial Medical Center.

23 comments

Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Drugs, Las Cruces Metro, Las Cruces, NM, Health, Pain

Thu Jul 09, 2009

CBC

Closure leaves methadone treatment patients few options

After relocating to the Braeside Medicentre, Second Chance Recovery is closing because staff and doctors are afraid for their safety.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Drugs, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Tue Jul 07, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Dying man denied morphine family claim

But instead they found the 76-year-old from Sheffield crying in pain at the city's Northern General Hospital after he was refused extra morphine.

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Related Topix: Morphine (generic), MS Contin, Kadian, Medicine, Medication

Sun Jul 05, 2009

Sunday People

Exclusive: Jacko on Heroin for 13 Years Michael Jackson was hooked on...

And he claimed aides knew Jacko was injecting the killer drug for more than a decade.

50 comments

Related Topix: Drugs, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson, Medicine, OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone (generic), Medication

Fri Jul 03, 2009

This Is Staffordshire

Drug user jailed for running thief over

RECOVERING drug user Ian Bailey deliberately ran over a man's legs in his car after the victim stole his methadone.

1 comment

Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, World News, Cheshire County, England, Staffordshire County, England, United Kingdom

The London News.Net

20 drugs seized from Jacko's house

London, July 3 : Cops have reportedly found a horde of 20 different drugs at late singer Michael Jackson's home, of which ten are potentially lethal painkillers and anaesthetics.

2 comments

Related Topix: Drugs, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson, Medicine, Valium, Valrelease, Diazepam (generic), Medication, Demerol, Meperidine (generic)

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Daytona Beach News-Journal Online

Increase in prescription drug deaths reported

Undercover detectives entered the Holly Hill residence of Brandi Bowman on Tuesday and purchased a handful of oxycodone pills, otherwise known as OxyContin, they said.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Medicine, OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone (generic), Medication, Holly Hill, FL, Xanax, Alprazolam (generic)

WJHG-TV Panama City

FDLE and Florida Medical Examiner Release Drug Report

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, FDLE, released the Florida Medical Examiners Commission Report on Drugs Identified in Deceased Persons.

8 comments

Related Topix: Drugs, Florida, Florida Government, Medicine, OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone (generic), Medication, Xanax, Alprazolam (generic), Drug Addiction (Substance Abuse), Health

Sun Jun 28, 2009

CCTV

NGO calss on drug policy reform

As China strengthens its efforts to combat drugs, some non-governmental organizations are calling for reforms of the current drug policy.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Pain, Medication

Fri Jun 26, 2009

This is Somerset

Dependency on drugs killed Weston-super-Mare woman

A 40-year-old woman, from Weston-Super-Mare, had a cocktail of prescription drugs and alcohol in her system when she was found dead in her flat, an inquest has heard.

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Related Topix: Somerset County, England, United Kingdom, Medicine, Medication, Morphine (generic), MS Contin, Kadian

Sun Jun 21, 2009

AZCentral.com

Sides weighed on methadone use by drivers

An effort to bar people who take methadone from driving kicked up a dispute at the state Capitol last week as legislators weighed the arguments of young women hurt in a car crash by an impaired driver against medical professionals who said methadone is safe.

7 comments

Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Drugs, Tempe, AZ, Phoenix, AZ

Wed Jun 17, 2009

Lethbridge Herald

City's first methadone clinic to open

When up to 40 per cent of patients using emergency room services are there because of addiction to pain pills, having a methadone clinic in the city makes perfect sense to Bill Leslie.

7 comments

Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Canada, Drugs

Tue Jun 16, 2009

doctorrw.blogspot.com | mike1975

Unique aspects of methadone toxicity---the methadone toxidrome

James R. Roberts, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Toxicology at the Drexel University College of Medicine, describes what I think we should call the methadone toxidrome: The prescient clinician faced with a lethargic patient with pinpoint pupils can glance at the EKG and immediately pronounce methadone overdose.

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Related Topix: Health, Pain

www.bignews.biz | mike1975

Addiction Specialist Opens Malden Medical Practice

Malden Medical Practice provides a full range of treatments for people with substance abuse problems, and does so without the use of further addictive pharmaceuticals .

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Related Topix: Malden, MA, Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Nursing, Brookline, MA

Notes from Dr. RW

Unique aspects of methadone toxicity---the methadone toxidrome

James R. Roberts, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Toxicology at the Drexel University College of Medicine, describes what I think we should call the methadone toxidrome: The prescient clinician faced with a lethargic patient with pinpoint pupils can glance at the EKG and immediately pronounce methadone overdose.

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Related Topix: Health, Pain

Sun Jun 14, 2009

The Frederick News Post

Demand for treatment up sharply

A patient of the Frederick Institute consumes a dose of methadone on a recent morning.

8 comments

Related Topix: Drugs, Frederick, MD, Medicine, Medication, OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone (generic)

Wed Jun 10, 2009

Kane Co. Chronicle

Burger pleads not guilty

ST. CHARLES – A former pharmacist charged with illegally selling prescription drugs pleaded not guilty Wednesday.

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Related Topix: St. Charles, IL, Drugs, Kane County, IL, Medicine, Medication

Tue Jun 09, 2009

MyHighPlains.com

Accessibility of Rx Drugs

Many kids say they can get any prescription drug they might want. Joseph Caspar, 17, says he could get "vicodin, morphine, anything like that." Patti Strickland says she could even get methadone.

2 comments

Related Topix: Morphine (generic), MS Contin, Kadian, Medicine, Medication, Vicodin, Acetaminophen/Hydrocodone (generic), Family, Teenagers, OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone (generic), Health, Pain

Sun Jun 07, 2009

The Sydney Morning Herald

Call for new painkiller policy

DOCTORS groups are urging a radical rethink of how opioid drugs are supplied and controlled, amid evidence of a surge in the number of people addicted to prescription painkillers.

7 comments

Related Topix: Drugs, Medicine, OxyContin, Roxicodone, Oxycodone (generic), Medication, Morphine (generic), MS Contin, Kadian, Medicare, Health, Pain

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