Providers Urge Use of Suboxone for Patients With Co-Occuring Pain, Addiction

Providers Urge Use of Suboxone for Patients with Co-Occuring Pain, Addiction

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What Solotaroff and other stakeholders – including Dr. Nimisha Gokaldas, medical director of addiction and mental health services for Multnomah County – are urging instead is more widespread use of the drug Buprenorphine (in the brand-name formulation …
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Letters: Nickerson endorsement

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Here is a great question for our community leaders, city council members, and voters: If a drug-addicted single mother is spending her whole Quest card on drugs, then how are her children supposed to get clothes to play football or a leather glove for …
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How Far Can Ethan Nadelmann Push America's Drug Laws?

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I'm wondering whether Oregon has a shot to move forward in 2014; there the legislature can put an initiative on the ballot, so I think there's a chance. There's some … The stigmas associated with addiction; the criminalization of pregnant women who …
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