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    This Thursday, June 29, 2017 photo shows a slogan is on the storefront of Journey, a former substance abuse treatment center, in Lake Worth, Fla. Now closed, it was one of two owned by Kenneth Chatman, who is now serving a 27-year federal prison sentence
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    As Addiction Deaths Surge, Profit-Driven Rehab Industry Faces 'Severe Ethical Crisis'

    Feb 15, 2021
    Many drug rehab programs use aggressive sales techniques, price-gouge patients and provide substandard care. The system often pushes people struggling with addiction into debt, but not recovery.
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    The Trump administration's decision to relax rules regarding the prescription of buprenorphine comes as record-level drug overdose deaths occurred in the U.S. in the 12 months ending in June 2020.
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    Trump Administration Will Let More Doctors Prescribe Drug To Fight Opioid Addiction

    Jan 15, 2021
    The change means that doctors will no longer need a special federal waiver in order to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication to treat opioid use disorder.
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    Researchers have found that a combination of two medications is effective at treating meth addiction.
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    A Medical Treatment For Meth Addiction Proves Effective In New Trial

    Jan 14, 2021
    The evidence is strong that some people struggling with meth addiction benefit from the drug regime.
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    Each mobile clinic has a nurse, a counselor and a peer specialist — all trained to drive a 34-foot-long motor home. "I never thought when I went to nursing school that I'd be doing this," says Christi Couron as she pumps 52 gallons of diesel fuel into
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    Health On Wheels: Tricked-Out RVs Deliver Addiction Treatment To Rural Colorado

    Sep 28, 2020
    As COVID-19 forced many addiction treatment clinics to scale back, Colorado brought its clinics on wheels to remote, underserved towns and used telehealth to connect patients with addiction doctors.
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    Costs have gone up for addiction treatment centers in recent months, as they have had to invest in teletherapy and personal protective gear. "We are at risk for not having the funding that we need to keep our doors open," says one medical director.
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    A New Addiction Crisis: Treatment Centers Face Financial Collapse

    Jun 15, 2020
    Alcohol and drug consumption have increased recently, but fewer patients have sought treatment. Most treatment centers face possible closure even as they anticipate a post-pandemic surge in need.
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    A January report found that 40% of U.S. counties don't have a single health care provider approved to prescribe buprenorphine, a medicine integral to helping many patients beat opioid addiction. Permitting more-distant doctors to evaluate patients online
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    Coronavirus Crisis Spurs Access To Online Treatment For Opioid Addiction

    Apr 20, 2020
    The federal government has waived a law that required an in-person doctor's visit before patients could be prescribed drugs that quell withdrawal symptoms. That's a boon for patients, counselors say.
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    Addiction Clinics Market Unproven Infusion Treatments To Desperate Patients

    Aug 22, 2019
    Some addiction treatment clinics offer IV infusions of a mix of supplements — including something known as NAD. The treatment isn't proven to work and is not FDA-approved for addiction.
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    Travis Rieder, author of <em>In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle With Opioids, </em>says none of the doctors who prescribed opioids for his waves of "fiery" or "electrical" pain taught him how to safely taper his use of the drugs when he wanted to
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    Motorcycle Crash Shows Bioethicist The Dark Side Of Quitting Opioids Alone

    Jul 08, 2019
    When medical bioethicist Travis Rieder tried to taper off pain medication after a roadway accident, he was disappointed by his doctors' reaction: "Everybody had a reason to send me to somebody else."
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    Powder methamphetamine packaged in foil for an illegal street sale. Across the U.S., more and more opioid users report using methamphetamine as well as opioids — up from 19% in 2011 to 34% in 2017, according to one study.
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    Meth In The Morning, Heroin At Night: Inside The Seesaw Struggle of Dual Addiction

    Jun 17, 2019
    Many users now mix opioids with stimulants such as meth and cocaine. Researchers say efforts to get doctors to reduce opioid prescriptions may have driven some users to buy meth on the street instead.
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    Dr. Hillary Tamar, who's in the second year of her family medicine residency in Phoenix, is part of a new generation of doctors who are committed to treating addiction.
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    Aspiring Doctors Seek Advanced Training In Addiction Medicine

    Mar 19, 2019
    Once a tiny specialty that drew mostly psychiatrists, addiction medicine is expanding its accredited training to include residents from specialties like family medicine who see it as a calling.
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    Located in Northern Wisconsin along the shores of Lake Superior, Ashland, Wis. has had enough of substance abuse issue. NorthLakes Community Clinic brought in Dr. Mark Lim to start a team providing substance abuse and mental health services.
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    For One Rural Community, Fighting Addiction Started With Recruiting The Right Doctor

    Dec 09, 2018
    While opioids get all the attention, rural communities struggle with substances like meth and alcohol too. One clinic is building up capacity to treat all of them, using both medicine and counseling.
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    Suboxone, a medicine to treat opioid addiction, helps people struggling with substance abuse by blocking their cravings and physical withdrawal symptoms.
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    Addiction Treatment Gap Is Driving A Black Market For Suboxone

    Oct 05, 2018
    This medicine to treat opioid addiction is hard to come by — only a fraction of doctors can prescribe it. So some people trying to quit a heroin habit are turning to the black market for help.
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    Counselor Melissa McConnell and patient Sara Florence look at a computer screen at the Denver Recovery Group, a treatment center.
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    A Surge In Meth Use In Colorado Complicates Opioid Recovery

    Jul 14, 2018
    Last year, 280 Coloradans who died of a drug overdose had methamphetamine in the mix. That's up sharply from 2016 and more than five times the number in 2012.
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    Reno Behavioral Hospital Opens; New Addiction Institute Launches

    Jul 09, 2018

    Like the rest of Nevada, the Reno area suffers from mental illness and addiction at rates that are far higher than the national av

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    Velva Poole works to reunite children with parents who have been grappling with substance use disorder. Mentoring the parents, she says, is a big part of the state-sponsored program's success.
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    Opioid Treatment Program Helps Keep Families Together

    Mar 28, 2018
    A mentoring program in Kentucky expedites treatment for some parents who lose custody of their children. The goal is to help parents get and stay sober, and reunite them with their kids within a year.
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    Eric Smith, left, talks to a homeless couple in San Francisco during neighborhood rounds. He's patient coordinator at the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics, and wants to make sure they know they can get health care and addiction treatment there.
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    A 1960s 'Hippie Clinic' In San Francisco Inspired A Medical Philosophy

    Dec 30, 2017
    Fifty years ago a community health clinic first opened its doors as a safe, sympathetic space for countercultural youth. Today its motto is the same: "Health care is a right, not a privilege."
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    After two weeks of recovery from an addiction to opioids prescribed by her surgeon, Katie Herzog takes a walk with her dog, Pippen.
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    Should Hospitals Be Punished For Post-Surgical Patients' Opioid Addiction?

    Nov 26, 2017
    Many surgeons prescribe strong pain medicine without knowing how much their patients actually need. A group of doctors says hospitals should be accountable for patients' long-term opioid use.
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    Telemedicine For Addiction Treatment? Picture Remains Fuzzy

    Nov 24, 2017
    One way to deal with the surging opioid epidemic is to let doctors use telemedicine to remotely prescribe addiction treatment medication. The approach has promise and some drawbacks.
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    Dr. Terry Horton, chief of addiction medicine and medical director of Project Engage at Christiana Care Health System, testified about opioid addiction before a U.S. Senate committee in May.
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    Asking About Opioids: A Treatment Plan Can Make All The Difference

    Nov 22, 2017
    Is it worthwhile for doctors to screen all the patients who come through the door about their use of opioids? Usually not, but direct connections to treatment can change the equation.
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    Eldred, at home with her dog, Bubbles, says she's committed to her recovery from opioid addiction. "But," she adds, "I can't say that I won't ever relapse again. Right now I feel strong, but this is a lifelong journey."
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    Court To Rule On Whether Relapse By An Addicted Opioid User Should Be A Crime

    Oct 26, 2017
    The high court in Massachusetts is weighing legal and scientific evidence to decide whether a woman convicted of larceny violated the terms of her probation by relapsing into drug use.
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    In this June 20 photo, City Court Judge Craig Hannah presides at Opiate Crisis Intervention Court in Buffalo, N.Y. The first such program in the country puts users under faster, stricter supervision than ordinary drug courts, all with the goal of keeping
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    To Save Opioid Addicts, This Experimental Court Is Ditching The Delays

    Oct 05, 2017
    Underscoring the severity of the U.S. overdose crisis, a first-of-its kind opioid intervention court aims to get drug-addicted criminal defendants into recovery before their criminal case is heard.
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    The shelter at Houston's Convention Center, seen here Aug. 29, isn't equipped to provide medication-assisted treatment for opioid abuse.
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    Houston Methadone Clinics Reopen After Harvey's Flooding

    Sep 06, 2017
    Hurricane Harvey disrupted treatment for people addicted to opioids. Many need to get connected to a specialty clinic that can provide medication-assisted treatment.
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    Delray Beach authorities say body brokers used to target recovering drug users hanging out on the patio of a local Starbucks. The coffee shop restricted access to the patio in 2015, after a meeting with the city officials and the police department.
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    'Body Brokers' Get Kickbacks To Lure People With Addictions To Bad Rehab

    Aug 15, 2017
    In South Florida, people with health insurance are the target of "body brokers" who can earn lucrative kickbacks — $500 per week — for referring vulnerable patients to centers that bilk insurers.
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    Fire Rescue crews say they get overdose calls even from restaurants and shops in Delray Beach's downtown.
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    Beach Town Tries To Reverse Runaway Growth Of 'Sober Homes'

    Aug 10, 2017
    Some local and state officials in South Florida are calling for more regulation of addiction recovery residences to help combat insurance scams.
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    Towson was known in her West Baltimore neighborhood as Teacup. For years, she was the go-to person for help getting high.
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    'That Fentanyl — That's Death': A Story Of Recovery In Baltimore

    Aug 03, 2017
    Andrea Towson was known in West Baltimore as the go-to person for help getting high. Last year, she nearly died from a fentanyl overdose. "Thank God for another day," she says.
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