Archive for the 'Opiate Addiction' Category
AN strange AND THOUGHTFUL RESPONSE ABOUT A NEW METHADONE CLINIC
Editorials nearly universally take the position, “We understand the need for that type of clinic, but it doesn’t belong here.” that editorial shows a real understanding of how misguided the fear of crime increasing where a clinic opens is and suggests that crime may likely decrease whether their tow…
PUBLISH . . . AND LET PERISH? (USA)
On Aug 3 the NY Times reported that CDC has known for some 10 months that it had been grossly underestimating - by some 40% - the number of HIV-positive cases in US. It kept the info from the public until it could be published in a peer reviewed journal. Meanwhile, it seems the considerably highe…
NEW YORK STATE FIRST STATE TO PROHIBIT TOBACCO IN ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTER:
The regulation “prohibits patients, family members, and other visitors from bringing tobacco products and paraphernalia to the service.” One can only hope that the state, in zealous pursuit of its goal, doesn’t mean patients to be sanctioned whether a visitor opens a pocketbook and a lighter …
EQUATING LIFE-SAVING WITH “CODDLING”:
Such intervention has been documented as effective in saving lives, but opponents denounce it as “coddling” and “giving a false sense of hope” to drug users. From Worcester, Mass., news of fierce opposition to a bill that would support expansion of a program to train “peers” to supply a narcotic an…
LE PLUS CA CHANGE:
Twenty years later, more drugs, more need for methadone treatment On Jan. It’s available anywhere.” Twenty years later, in the Ohio-Pennsylvania border region, methadone clinics are said to be “dotting suburbia.” 24,1988, a NY Times headline read: “Twin Evils Spur Methadone Clinics” in…
AN OVERDOSE OF OVERDOSE DEATHS:
Americans have for decades paid a staggering price for the counter-productive “war on drugs” precisely considering of hasty, unfounded, knee-jerk conclusions that doing more of the same will lead to different outcomes. The newspaper offers nothing to propose the problem of rising overdose rates lie…
THE CUSTOMER IS (OR SHOULD BE) ALWAYS RIGHT
One interesting facet is the diametrically opposite views of authors and “subjects” regarding detoxification. “Complete informed consent procedures” were applied, but one must wonder whether the info provided (by the researchers and by their clinical colleagues) included the judgment that …
THE RATIONAL, AND THE IRRATIONAL:
But what a travesty, and how tragic for patients as well as the general community! In the meantime, as government mulls by what it should do, many patients are turning to the only sources available to pay for their potentially life-and-death treatment: “The cost of methadone programs is driving som…
UNITED STATES: DISCRIMINATION CLAIM SETTLED:
A company agrees to settle a discrimination claim filed by The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a qualified employment applicant who was denied employment considering he was receiving methadone treatment for pain. For Full Story go HEREOriginal post by RGNewman, MD
CANDIDATES ON METHADONE:
…[With methadone maintenance] the federal government trades places with the street dealer, swapping heroin for methadone and feeding the addiction with taxpayer dollars. that is disgusting and it is immoral.” (Entire speech on floor of Senate, May, 1999, accessible at http://www.methadonetoday.o…
