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Milwaukee, Murder, Methadone, 2 Facing Charges The Seller, The Buyer, But Not The Taker

Posted at 11:18 AM on February 15, 2009 Comments comments (0)

http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/39578742.html

2 charged in Waukesha methadone overdose death

Posted: Feb. 13, 2009

Waukesha - Homicide ...

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New Drug Czar May Be Good News For Addicts

Posted at 11:58 PM on February 12, 2009 Comments comments (10)

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/399760_kerlikowske12.html

Kerlikowske seen as a progressive

Advocates of reforms are 'cautiously optimistic' about him as 'drug czar'

By VANESSA HO AND SCOTT GUTIERREZ
P-I REPORTERS

Gil Kerlikowsk...

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Murder & Methadone Police Admit The case was a year old but brought charges anyway.

Posted at 11:44 PM on February 12, 2009 Comments comments (0)

http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2009/02/11/news/01drugs.txt

Police: Drugs sold at apartment a month before overdose death

Police suspected a Winona man of selling methadone a month before he provided drugs to a woman who died of an overdose, court documents say.

Authorities did not arrest Harold ...

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Methadone & Murder In The UK Hence No Murder Conviction.

Posted at 11:42 PM on February 12, 2009 Comments comments (0)

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2044570_man_gave_pal_fatal_dose_of_methadone

Comments in red are my own and not part of the original article.

Man gave pal fatal dose of methadone


By Natalie Slater ...

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FDA Cracks Down Even More On Narcotics

Posted at 09:16 PM on February 12, 2009 Comments comments (0)

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-02-09-opioids-narcotics_N.htm

FDA targets narcotic use

The Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it was stepping up efforts to reduce unsafe use of 24 narcotics products — methadone pills, fentanyl patches and extended...
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MMT Story of Hope

Posted at 09:27 PM on February 08, 2009 Comments comments (0)

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/special-reports/2009/02/09/ddn020909heroininside.html

Treatment choices limited to daily doses at clinic

From behind secure glass and a barred door, nurse Linda Bostick gives Project Cure client Jame...

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Methadone Success Story,

Posted at 09:22 PM on February 08, 2009 Comments comments (0)

http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/the_pain_of_prescription_drug_abuse/35472/

The pain of prescription drug abuse

Published: February 8, 2009

The 32-year-old mother of two wasn’t high this Christmas for the first time in two decades.

For the average person, staying straight on Christmas Day might not be a big deal. But the Augusta County woman stopped being normal a long time ago.

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MMT Patients In Australia At Risk For Stricter Regs For Parents?/ WTF?

Posted at 09:16 PM on February 08, 2009 Comments comments (0)

http://www.virtualmedicalcentre.com/news.asp?artid=13176

Action needed to reduce child homicide

7 Feb 2009

Taking advantage of opportunities for early intervention in families that come into contact with health workers, welfare agencies and the police may help reduce the rate of child homicide in Australia, according to a study in the latest edition of the Medical Journal of Australia.

During the study, Dr Ola...

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MMT Murder = Life Xanax = 21 Months

Posted at 09:14 PM on February 08, 2009 Comments comments (0)

http://www.mywesttexas.com/articles/2009/02/07/news/top_stories/suckarieh_sentence.txt

Woman imprisoned in drug death case

A Midland woman was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison Thursday for giving Xanax to a man who went into a coma and died on April 23 last year.

by Staff Reports
Midland Reporter-Telegram
Published: Friday, February 6, 2009 3:02 PM CST
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Veterans Methadone Cut for Addiction

Posted at 09:12 PM on February 08, 2009 Comments comments (0)

http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/saturday/longisland/ny-lisold076027143feb07,0,1628739.story

Hospital exec: Soldiers' treatment needs funds

BY MARTIN C. EVANS |
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The VanBuren Bigots Come Out To Protest The New MMT Clinic

Posted at 09:11 PM on February 08, 2009 Comments comments (2)

Dear Editor #3

Feb 06 2009


To the editor of the Mountain View Newspaper

I drove to the Methadone clinic in...

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Mixed Drug Overdose Death Leads to Methadone Murder Charge

Posted at 07:25 PM on February 08, 2009 Comments comments (0)


http://www.sctimes.com/article/20090207/NEWS01/102060046/1009

Woman's bail set at $100K

Rebecca Ann Seffinga, 42, remains in Sherburne County Jail. Her next court appearance is Feb. 25 in front of Sherburne County District Court Judge Mary Yunker.

Seffinga is charged with murder and third-degree controlled substance crime. A complaint accuses her of...

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Third Charged In Methadone Murder case Challenges Finally!

Posted at 07:14 PM on February 08, 2009 Comments comments (0)

http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2009/02/06/news/02zubick.txt

Suspect to challenge murder charge in overdose case

One of the men charged with third-degree murder in the methadone overdose death of a Winona woman plans to challenge the legitimacy of those charges, his attorney said Thursday.

Douglas Bruc...

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Rehab Pays For MMT Discrimination...It Is About Time!

Posted at 02:12 AM on February 06, 2009 Comments comments (0)

http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_11636449

W.Pa. rehab center settles methadone firing suit

 

The Associated Press

 


PITTSBURGH—A suburban Pittsburgh drug treatment facility that fired a counselor who was on methadone is paying her $20,...

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Murder & Methadone Again & Again & Again

Posted at 02:08 AM on February 06, 2009 Comments comments (0)

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20090205/NEWS01/102040046/1009

Big Lake woman charged with murder

ELK RIVER — A Big Lake woman was charged Wednesday with murder in the death of a woman who died from a methadone overdose.

Rebecca Ann Seffinga, 42, was charged with third-degree murder and a third-degree controlled substance crime. She is in Sherburne County Jail. The charges relate to the Sept. 29 death of Anna Jean Burns, 21, of Bi...

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Murder & Methadone Again & Again

Posted at 02:05 AM on February 06, 2009 Comments comments (0)

http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20090204/NEWS01/902040306

COURT DOCKET: Trial date set in prescription death

An April 27 trial date has been set for a Novi man accused of delivering the methadone that killed a Brighton woman in August.

Norman Kenneth Schoder's former live-in girlfriend testified at an earlier preliminary hearing that the 24-year-old man sold Frances Buresh his prescription methadone pills, which a medical examiner said contributed to the Aug. 5 d...

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Tennessee Getting In On The NIMBY Phenomenon

Posted at 02:03 AM on February 06, 2009 Comments comments (0)

http://myspartanews.com/articles/2009/02/04/news/doc498a13d620f20467339963.txt#blogcomments

Methadone clinic may locate within 10 miles



This is a photo of the methad...
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Nevada Murder & Methadone Case Is There More To This Story?

Posted at 04:25 AM on February 04, 2009 Comments comments (1)

Ely man pleads not guilty to Elko overdose death

if (...
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Another Successful Clinic Fears Unwarrated

Posted at 02:43 AM on February 02, 2009 Comments comments (0)

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20080113-NEWS-801130344

Methadone clinic making no waves
Director says early concerns rooted in misconceptions
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