Local Voices: Karen Pershing: Addicted Mothers Need Support

Published June 7, 2013

Local Voices: Karen Pershing: Addicted mothers need support

Filed under: addiction help with suboxone

If an addictive parent has a lot of live-in family support where extended family can provide assistance to both the child and the person in treatment, there may be justification for allowing the baby to be cared for by the parent. One way addicted …
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TALES OF SURVIVAL

Filed under: addiction help with suboxone

“Treatment works and people do recover,” said Anne Constantino, president and CEO of Horizon Health Services, which serves about 6,000 people each year for addiction in the Tonawandas. They are people like Jane — a recovering drug addict who …
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OxyContin abuse: can it be slowed?

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Those addicted to opiates are often prescribed the opiates methadone or Suboxone to help wean them from their addiction. Health care providers are then able to slowly decrease the amount of opiate the person receives. Methadone can be abused or sold …
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