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Methadone Leading Cause of Overdose Victims in Kentucky
A state medical examiner's report says methadone is the prescription drug that was most frequently detected in the blood of fatal overdose victims. Methadone is commonly prescribed for treating patients suffering from chronic pain and medical professionals describe methadone as an effective tool for pain management.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A state medical examiner's report says methadone is the prescription drug that was most frequently detected in the blood of fatal overdose victims. Methadone is commonly prescribed for treating patients suffering from chronic pain and medical professionals describe methadone as an effective tool for pain management.
Overdose due to methadone is on the rise in Kentucky as reflected in the State Medical Examiners Annual Report. It lists 197 deaths related to the misuse of the prescription drug methadone last year. Methadone was detected in 41 percent of the 484 overdose death cases in Kentucky.
A recent federal government study found that nationwide methadone-related deaths climbed to more than 38-hundred in 2004 from about 780 in 1999.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Methadone is so helpful, you people have no idea. The people dying aren't prescribed methadone. Before i was prescribed methadone I couldnt hold a job, get out of bed, couldn't do anything without a ton of pills. I had "pill heads" in my family and i dispized them, but then i had an accident at work and was put on pain meds , the longer i was on them the more i needed. I never snorted pills or did any other drugs to this day. My pain problem became a pill problem. At the methadone clinic i go to there are people from al walks of life not just trash like you people think. How many alcohol related deaths are there each year? anyone can buy alcohol, at least these clinics have very strict rules. Just look at what else is in these peoples system, cocaine, xanax , its the mixture thats killing these people. They are trying to get high. Methadone taken right is a good thing, and not going to kill anyone. It saved my life, my marriage, and my wallet.
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I've got methadone addicts in my family along with other pill heads. them along with all these other (edited) bags lookin for a buzz need to just cast themselves off the face of the earth. you aren't worth anyones time.
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To Jessica: If Methadone is so helpful why have you been on it for 2 years already? Can you not see it is an addiction as well? This is a legal way to sell drugs to people who need to get off other drugs. You need an in-house treatment or you will be on Methadone the rest of your life. Too many people are dyeing from Methadone and it is sad. Please get yourself some other help.
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