Methadone News

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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

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

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.

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.