Methadone News

BUFFALO, N.Y. Dr. Raul Vazquez from Urban Family Practice stopped by Channel 7's "Eyewitness News This Morning" Tuesday to address the issues of prescription painkillers.

The misuse of prescription opiate drugs in Thurston County and the state, which began in 1995 and got steadily worse over the next 16 years, is finally being addressed in a serious way by the Legislature and physician regulators.

There has been a study published in the Journal of Pain from Australian that might suggest opiates may cause increased sensitivity in some types of pain.

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Last year, the Virginia Board of Medicine suspended the medical licence of Cheek, who earlier was convicted of Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

The indictment alleges that the 63-year-old Cheek distributed oxycodone, methadone, morphine and hydrocodone without holding a valid Drug Enforcement Administration certificate.

A proposal for a methadone clinic in Sanford to treat people addicted to heroin and other opiates will be reviewed by town planning officials next week.

A recent report released by the New Mexico Department of Health indicates oxycodone sales led with more than 1,074 pounds sold in 2010 while hydrocodone was second with 441 pounds, followed by morphine with 396 pounds sold.

An ongoing lawsuit against the borough of Dunmore has been dismissed after an outside settlement was reached between the borough and a Boston-based health care organization, according to documents from the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

BETHESDA, Md. -- -- Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the presentation of positive data from a Phase 3 clinical trial of lubiprostone for the treatment of opioid-induced bowel dysfunction , at Digestive Disease Week 2012, held in San Diego, California .

The Seattle Times was judged the best large newspaper in the Northwest, both online and in print, during the 2011 Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists .

Cape Breton Regional Police have arrested a suspect after a large amount of methadone was stolen from a Sydney Mines pharmacy.

SAN DIEGO, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Millennium Research Institute , a nonprofit national research center formed in 2010, and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego announced today five scientific articles co-authored by UCSD doctoral pharmacy students have been accepted by the ... (more)

Dr. Gary Oxman, Multnomah County pubic health officer, faced a tough choice a year ago -- overdose deaths due to prescription painkiller abuse were rising, but so were deaths from heroin overdoses.

I'd rather live near a methadone clinic than an everyday pharmacy. Sure, methadone is an offered answer to opioid addiction, but it's the pharmacy that distributes the majority of the narcotics in the first place, at least in Orangeville.

Three Walstonburg residents accused of trafficking up to 190 pills of Percocet through Greene County may soon face federal drug charges after authorities intercepted a package of narcotics sent by first-class mail from Eastern North Carolina to California.

"A lot of people are being introduced to methadone to try to address their addiction," said Ralph Johnson, a traditional teacher from Sioux Lookout.

Alcohol and Drug Assessment and Counselling clinical director Roger Brooking said the sale of prescribed pain medication was a "huge issue" and, with no alert system in place, the situation would only get worse.

A new study published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association has determined that the number of infants suffering from opiate withdrawal symptoms after birth has tripled in the past decade.