Move of Portsmouth Methadone Clinic Stirs Backlash

Move of Portsmouth methadone clinic stirs backlash
BHS serves between 1,500 and 2,000 clients a year. The clients receive a variety of services, including family and mental health counseling. Of those clients, about 100 get methadone treatment, city records show. To Black, that means 100 more drug …
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Mohave County awash in pain medications
Editor's note: This is the second installment in our series regarding prescription pain medicines, those who need them, those who treat patients and those who fill their prescriptions. The series will also focus on those who are trying to address the …
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Medical board votes to reprimand UF professor with checkered past
The Florida Board of Medicine has voted unanimously to reprimand a University of Florida psychiatry professor with a history of drug and alcohol addiction for allegedly prescribing a lethal amount of Oxycontin to a patient at an Orlando area hospital …
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