Finding treatment for opiate addiction fraught with challenges

Finding treatment for opiate addiction fraught with challenges
"You have to point out to them that, 'Yeah, you're taking it for a medical problem but you've lost your spouse, your job, your home.' You go through all of the impact the medications have had. They're a harder nut to crack to get them even into treatment."
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Editorial: State must step up to help drug addicts get proper treatment
Editorial: State must step up to help drug addicts get proper treatment. sullivan. … Insurance companies, including MassHealth, make it difficult for addicts to get the help they need, according to many who have studied addiction and attempted to …
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Pretrial services bill 'will change people's lives,' adviser to governor says
The bill creates a new type of service provider, a "pretrial monitor," who works with courts, attorneys and a defendant to help him or her comply with instructions from a judge, such as attending substance abuse treatment. In addition to pretrial …
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Legalization is not the answer
Some choose to deal drugs to get their drugs for free while others choose to deal drugs to capitalize on the epidemic levels of users and profit from their weaknesses. Either way, distributors are predators. They prey upon those that have fallen into …
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