7 charged with selling methadone, other drugs

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Methadone, a drug available since the 1960s and deemed by the National Institute of Health and the Centers for Disease Control as “the most effective treatment for opiate addiction,” is, in essence, a risk-versus-reward system. Proponents say it's …
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Drug use rampant at Colonel Gray: Keizer

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Darren O'Handley, program manager with the Provincial Addictions Treatment Facility, says Colonel Gray is not the only high school with a drug problem. “The use of alcohol and other mood-altering drugs is not unique to any one school in Prince Edward …
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Jackson requested he serve the time at a facility equipped for drug-abuse treatment. The jail time will be followed by 18 months probation. A 10-year weapons ban was imposed and Jackson must provide police a DNA sample. [email protected] …
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Vertex adds “Black Box” warning label after at least two deaths from a …

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Incivek, the first drug developed solely by Vertex, was approved in 2011 for sale in the United States, where it already had been prescribed to more than 50,000 patients in conjunction with the established hepatitis C treatments peginterferon alfa and …
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