Methadone News

The day that her 34-year-old son died of a heroin overdose plays over and over in one Manitowoc mother's mind.

Libby Blackburn said Dr. Harold Sleight prescribed 600 methadone pills and 90 oxycodone pills to her son in July 2009.

Retired London Police Staff Sgt. Rick Izzard, right, shows off the matching tattoo he got with his son Ryan, left, when the younger Izzard kicked his prescription drug addiction with the help of methadone, which he was doctor-prescribed after a hockey injury in his teens.

PORTLAND, Ore. Oregon saw a seven percent drop in drug-related deaths in 2012, but heroin caused more deaths than ever, the state medical examiner said.

JODY JACKSON'S GP wants to put her on methadone after she became addicted to prescribed drugs meant to help her heavy and painful periods.

The aim of the study was to establish whether there exists a relationship between blood methadone concentration and analgesic response and the intrasubject and intersubject variability in this relationship.

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For Elisha Gahagan, it was the day she lost custody of her kids. She'd been using since she was 12 years old - first wine coolers and pot, then cocaine, eventually heroin - but she had always promised herself that she would not turn out like this, just like her own mother, an opiate addict who spent her days chasing pain pills.

During Monday's meeting of council's community and protective services committee, politicians recommended methadone-dispensing clinics and pharmacies treating at least 40 patients daily install outdoor surveillance cameras, pay a $700 annual fee and keep a daily head count of patients.

DR. CLAUDE Curran sees himself as a thorn in the side of the medical establishment.

Taxis from Brainerd and Duluth have been seen coming in and out of the Pinnacle Recovery Services parking lot in Brainerd since the opiate treatment program opened in April of 2012.

STERLING – A local doctor accused of illegally dispensing drugs that led to the deaths of at least 3 people hired a physician to issue prescriptions when he was absent, federal prosecutors say.

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