New York Times Misses Mark on Buprenorphine Drug

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In a lengthy front page story called: "Addiction Treatment with a Dark Side," The New York Times recently drew attention to buprenorphine, a medication used to treat addiction to heroin and prescription opioids. As physicians and researchers studying …
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A new kind of addict: Methadone clinics find new mission in fight against …

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… on painkillers are lining up for methadone, a synthetic version of morphine that gained acceptance in the 1960s as way to wean addicts off heroin. Now the drug has found a new mission in the fight against opioid-based prescription painkillers, the …
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Substance Abuse in Medical Residents Rising

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Dr. McLellan, who was not involved with the current research, is a former senior scientist and deputy director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). While with the ONDCP, he coauthored a strategy that made addiction …
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At Clinics, Tumultuous Lives and Turbulent Care

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Dr. Sullivan, 61, primarily treated alcoholism until “a spectacular explosion of prescription opioid drugs” starting around 2000. He considered opioid addiction “a hopeless disease,” with patients leaving rehab and then relapsing and sometimes dying …
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