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<title>Methadone toll hits W.Va. hardest</title>
<description><![CDATA[    A new study reveals that almost 4,000 Americans died of an overdose of the prescription drug methadone in 2004, more than any other prescription narcotic. Methadone was a factor in the death of 3,849 people that year, almost four times as many as died ...]]></description>
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<title>A deadly double standard</title>
<description><![CDATA[    For two decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved dangerous dosing information about methadone for pain patients, but ordered safe doses for addiction patients. People take the prescription drug methadone for two purposes: to relieve pain...]]></description>
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<title>New warning issued on methadone</title>
<description><![CDATA[    This is part of an ongoing Gazette investigation of methadone, a drug that has the unique ability to kill if you don�t take it exactly as directed, and sometimes even if you do.  Methadone �can cause death� if not taken exactly as prescribed, the...]]></description>
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<title>Methadone played role in death of celebrity�s son</title>
<description><![CDATA[    A combination of methadone and two anti-depressant drugs killed the 20-year-old son of celebrity Anna Nicole Smith, according to a pathologist hired by the family. Daniel Smith died accidentally from the �cumulative effect� of taking methadone, Zol...]]></description>
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<title>Gazette series inspires methadone training</title>
<description><![CDATA[    A nonprofit medical group is sponsoring statewide training Thursday on the safe use of the prescription painkiller methadone. The Appalachian Pain Foundation is conducting the training live over the Internet for hospitals and clinics throughout West Vi...]]></description>
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<title>Methadone</title>
<description><![CDATA[        AS more people learn the dangers of the powerful painkiller methadone, they are taking important steps to make sure the drug is carefully administered. Organizers of a continuing education conference for doctors next month have added a methadone ex...]]></description>
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<title>Methadone deaths triple in four years</title>
<description><![CDATA[    The number of Americans who died of overdoses of the prescription drug methadone rose 213 percent in the four years between 1999 and 2002, according to a new analysis by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Methadone accounts ...]]></description>
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<title>Methadone to be topic at W.Va. health conference</title>
<description><![CDATA[    West Virginia�s death rate from the prescription drug methadone is the nation�s highest. Next month, doctors from across the state will attend an education session to learn more about the drug, and how to prescribe it more safely. An investigation ...]]></description>
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<title>Feds act on methadone deaths</title>
<description><![CDATA[    A federal agency is developing a plan to deal with an increase in deaths tied to the prescription drug methadone, one month after a Sunday Gazette-Mail series revealed a spike in overdoses nationwide. The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...]]></description>
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<title>Methadone</title>
<description><![CDATA[    GIVEN the dangers of the drug methadone recently outlined in the Gazette, you would think that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration � charged with protecting the public health � could at least require more specific and cautionary labeling on the p...]]></description>
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<title>Health pros to get methadone briefs</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Pharmacists statewide will soon get information from the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy that will help them explain to patients the need to be careful with the pain drug methadone. Also, the West Virginia Medical Association plans to educate doctors a...]]></description>
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<title>Patients are the ones at risk</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Two U.S. senators are calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to respond to thousands of overdose deaths being blamed on the prescription painkiller methadone. A Sunday Gazette-Mail investigation published last week found that methadone is hel...]]></description>
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<title>Methadone</title>
<description><![CDATA[    ACROSS West Virginia and the nation, patients consume a powerful painkiller called methadone, and an alarming number of them die. The drug � once used mostly as a heroin substitute to help addicts wean themselves from their habit � is increasingly ...]]></description>
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<title>One pill can kill</title>
<description><![CDATA[    On Memorial Day weekend in 2004, a traveling fair came to the small town of Oconto Falls, Wis. Sixteen-year-old Josh Engebregtsen and three of his friends decided to go. His mother, Sue, remembers the night. Everything seemed so normal. Her son called ...]]></description>
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<title>Despite deaths, methadone prescriptions multiply</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Lynda Lee was recuperating in her Texas home following back surgery one day in November 2004. The 59-year-old nurse took the pain medicine her doctor had prescribed � methadone � then lay down on the couch in front of the television. Her son found ...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[    Five years ago, Mike Blake walked into his daughter�s bedroom and found his wife lying on the floor, dead from an overdose of methadone and Xanax. The 39-year-old mother of two from Indianapolis had just started taking methadone. A doctor had prescri...]]></description>
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<title>Deaths tied to methadone escalate across state, nation</title>
<description><![CDATA[    One increasingly popular painkiller is helping to kill more people than any other prescription narcotic, a Sunday Gazette-Mail investigation has found. Patients could die if they take the �usual adult dosage� on methadone�s package insert � inf...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>A deadly dose</title>
<description><![CDATA[    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a �usual adult dosage� on the package insert for methadone that several studies say could be deadly. �The usual adult dosage is 2.5 mg to 10 mg every three or four hours as necessary,� reads th...]]></description>
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<title>How we did it</title>
<description><![CDATA[    The Sunday Gazette-Mail�s investigation of nationwide methadone deaths was prompted by an obscure entry in a West Virginia vital statistics report. Accidental poisoning deaths in the state had shot up dramatically in five years, reporter Scott Finn n...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>What is methadone.</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <strong>What it is:</strong> Methadone is a synthetic opiate developed by the Germans during World War II as a substitute for morphine. What it isn�t: Methadone often is confused with �meth,� or methamphetamine, an illegal stimulant commonly cook...]]></description>
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