Opiate Addiction

A recent publication reported on "A Randomized, Double-blind Evaluation of Buprenorphine Taper Duration in Primary Prescription Opioid...

Hope there are still folks interested in reading. . . . . Bob Newman

The following is an exchange that appeared recently on a international website linking colleagues involved in addiciton treatment: Initial...

A comment from a long-term, thoughtful provider of "substitution" treatment in Germany, and one that applies in most countries (mo...

A decision in Oct. 2010 ruled in favor of a patient whose daily travel to a methadone clinic cost approximately $US 220. Note that there has...

Buprenorphine maintenance vs. “taper” in chronic pain patients “who also had opioid addiction”. The stated objective of this study with NIH...

Mother faces life in prison because of accidental methadone death of 3 year old daughter. In this report from Reno, Nevada, the District Att...

The bottom line: “Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian writer who on Thursday received the Nobel Prize, called for a legalization of all drugs....

The key conclusions of the Rolleston Committee Report (1926) in UK are worth considering (again, still) today. "[Addiction] in most we...

From a fossil fuel expert comes the following: … the question is, does CNG (compressed natural gas] make sense right now or is it to petrole...

Prime Minister Cameron of UK has “suggested taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for drug treatments that don’t really work, especially when they i...

The above is the headline of an article in the Tribune-Review of Oct. 1. The company proposing to establish the clinic had “claimed in its ...

"Feetox": a Sept. 2 news report is headlined "Acadia [Healthcare Corp.] cuts free methadone to uninsured" and states som...

US state opioid treatment authorities were surveyed as to their policies and guidelines (Harris et al. J Subst Ab Treatm 2010, 39:58-64). E...

A physician in Windsor, Ontario, has written about the problem of opioid addiction and the very positive role that methadone maintenance tre...

A headline (12 Sept) in the Windsor (Ca.) Star reads: “Meth clinic unwelcome in Somers Point”. The lead paragraph: “Fear gripped West Cedar...

Unfortunate that methadone is said to “top the list” of killers in contributing to military deaths, without reference to the fact that it re...

"Parents of addicts call for acceptance" is the headline of a piece in the Aug 2010 issue of Drogenkurier, which bills itself as ...

A voice of reason in the drugs discussion: Those who expect yet another diatribe against "maintenance" treatment will be pleasant...

An article just published in J subst Ab Treatm (2010, vol. 39, pp22-31) discusses "trends in methadone maintenance treatment ... in Br...

This reality seems to have been overlooked by authors of a paper that appeared recently (J Psychoact Drugs, 42(2):161-175, 2010). They stat...

According to a 23 Aug article in The Telegraph “The Coalition is working on proposals to stop the widespread prescription of methadone for h...

A 1971 paper by Gay and colleagues discuss the US opiate dispensing clinics operating from 1919 to 1923 (there were 44 of them!). they conc...

"Despite multidisciplinary coordinated antenatal care, women with substance abuse during pregnancy are at significant risk of adverse o...

The July 12 CESAR FAX (vol. 19, issue 26) of CSAT reports on a letter to editor of Am J Psych 167(4):473-475, 2010). The authors, Wilson ...

In a nutshell: a man is stopped for a traffic violation, consents (!) to have his car searched. Is found to have a baggie and a scale with...

(Tages Anzeiger, Switzerland, 12 Aug): According to Dick Marty prohibition has been a total failure and "... has lead to high prices a...

Candid comments on AA and “rehab” - an article in Washington Post 8 Aug is headlined, “We're addicted to rehab. It doesn't even work...

UK prime minister Cameron "... wants to shift the focus away from the use of methadone as a substitute drug.... [and] press ahead with ...

DEA "diversion program manager" for 5 mid-western states worries about the danger of diversion of methadone posed by the "mu...

That’s the headline of a 26 July opinion piece in The Guardian, UK, written by a London physician whose practice includes many patients rece...

While most reports of the major liberalization initiated in the country 10 years ago have been decidedly positive, and even though Portugal ...

The Chief attributes to the new methadone facility, operating out of necessity with essentially no counseling or other support staff, with t...

A clear, compelling overview of the arguments favoring the establishment of methadone clinics is to be found in an opinion piece published i...

According to an article in the July 1 issue of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pennsylvania lawmakers have called for an "audit" of...

A UK headline (The Observer, 11 July) reads: “Anthrax deaths expose addicts' plight …13 deaths in UK since Xmas”. The article quotes a d...

A recent contribution to the Journal of Addiction (105:1311-1313, 2010) describes a survey of opiate substitution treatment (OST) policies a...

Difficult to understand the dismissal ("what's the point") of medical treatment that is acknowledged to prolong lives but fail...

What’s most noteworthy about the prediction is the source: an op ed piece written by Lee Baca, sheriff of LA County and Charlie Beck, LA chi...

In a series of half dozen proposed bills, the PA. Senate is seeking to assume the role of physicians. For example: Sen. Bill 1293 would est...

(Statement of Office of the Director, ONDCP (office of national drug control policy), May 18, 2010) What a sad reflection on our country...

At a news conference 16 June LA Police Chief Beck and Sheriff Baca "decried the proposal ... to eliminate state funding for treating he...

That is the question posed by a recent article in Pain Physician (13:289-293, 2010), and not surprisingly, the answer is an emphatic "y...

A June 10 Riverdale (NY) Press article reported that for some time now 45 residents of a health care facility for elderly and disabled in th...