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Illegal Methadone Sales
Fox Undercover found that methadone was being "openly sold and consumed on a Camden New Jersey Street right in front of a methadone clinic and just yards away from the Camden County Prosecutor's Office."
Tags: methadone; narcotics; drugs; dealer; methadone clinic; illegal drug; security
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Methadone Clinics
WCAU-TV "documented drug dealing going on right in front of a drug rehabilitation clinic in Pennsylvania" where a patients are treated with liquid methadone. "There's evidence some patients at this clinic and across the state ...are selling their doses to addicts on the street."
Tags: drugs; addiction; liquid methadone; drug dealing; rehabilitation; clinics; state government; death; health;
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Patients for Profit: Methadone Clinic Abuse
The investigation revealed that a Southern Indiana Methadone Clinic was handing out methadone, a powerful narcotic, like candy. Lax procedures at the clinic and incorrect information given to the would-be patients led to severe patient abuse and illegal methadone sales.
Tags: methadone; regulation; money; deaths; abuse; illegal sales; TAPE; TV; TRANSCRIPT
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Methadone: craving the cure
The Evansville Courier investigates the opening of several methadone clinics across the state of Indiana. Started to offer free methadone to recovering heroine addicts, the clinics are supposed to be part of a drug rehabilitation program; however, heroine is not a large problem in Indiana. The clinics encourage methadone addiction among other, drug addicts and encourage "methadone entrepreneurs" to make huge profits off others' drug problems.
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No title (id: 10875)
There is a forgotten front in the war on drugs; the illegal trade of prescription medication. Legal Drugs/Illegal Uses examines a methadone clinic that had become the epicenter of Syracuse's illegal pill market.
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Big business, big controversy
Houston Chronicle series reports on the effect of formerly government-run methadone clinics being privatized; finds that privatization has opened the heroin and opiate addiction treatment drug to the black market.
Tags: Drugs; public health; methadone; heroin
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No title (id: 6580)
New York Newsday illustrates financial and clinical abuses in the state's substance abuse services; also shows how the system's failure contributed to the spread of AIDS, June 11 - 13, 1989.