Shumlin signs budget adjustment bill at opiate treatment center
One such cost is the governor's initiative to support heroin and opiate addiction treatment in the state. Currently, opiate addicts have to travel long distances to treatment centers with long waiting list. “What this budget adjustment does is advance …
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A 'blockade' for opiates: Vivitrol offers hope for treatment
That's what the pilot program at Journey Mental Health Center in Madison has been trying to study since the first participant started receiving the treatment in November, thanks to funding from a state grant. A number of other local drug treatment …
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Opiate treatment facility differs from other two in Gaylord
GAYLORD — Denali Healthcare Gaylord, 114 S. Center Ave., opened its doors last November and one of its services was providing treatment to opiate-addicted patients. Unlike the two methadone treatment programs expected to open in Gaylord in spring, …
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VA's lack of pain treatment options led to opiate addiction, veteran says
Justin Minyard, an Army infantryman who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, says he became addicted to opiates prescribed by VA doctors to mute chronic back pain that began after he helped in the 9/11 rescue effort at the Pentagon. “There were better …
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