Press coverage of addiction tends to be prolific if not always accurate or considered. This article examines the ways in which methadone treatment is reported in three respected daily newspapers, the New York Times, the Times (London) and the Sydney Morning Herald. To conduct this analysis I focus on the role of metaphor, asking what impact the use of metaphor-both to figure methadone and to mobilize it as a figure for other phenomena-has in this context. In the process I consider the status of metaphor itself within Western liberal discourse, and trace the ways in which methadone treatment can be seen not only as a resource for, and object of, metaphorical description and production, but itself as a kind of metaphor-a metaphor for heroin. In concluding, I argue that methadone is aligne...
WARREN After spending more than an hour Tuesday night behind closed doors in executive session, the Board of Selectmen voted unanimously to let the towns residents decide if they prefer to settle a federal lawsuit related to a proposed . But even officials who feel that it is in the best interest of the town to spend a total of $320,000 to settle the suit acknowledged that the move wouldnt sit well with many in Warren.
Amanda Higgins was a prisoner of her drug addiction. Before she entered a methadone treatment program, she spent her days looking for drugs - her favorite was OxyContin - and she spent her nights consuming them.
Methadone treatment: Patients at admission, and one year later .64: Percentage employed at admission
WARREN - It took minutes for the town's voters to agree to pass a new land use ordinance designed to keep methadone clinics away from schools, churches, day care facilities, parks, playgrounds andhomes. In fact, the clinics now are allowed only on two roads in town, Route 1 and Route 90.
LEWISTON -- City councilors narrowly approved a Mollison Way methadone clinic Tuesday night. The vote clears the way for the Merrimack River Medical Services clinic to begin applying for state and federal licenses.
State Sen. Kim Ward will introduce legislation that would limit taxpayer-funded methadone treatment services after a state audit showed such treatment costs about $80 million a year. Ward, a Hempfield Republican, announced yesterday that she is introducing two bills that would limit Medicaid payments for methadone treatment and transportation to such treatment.
LEWISTON -- A proposed methadone clinic belongs downtown, close to the Lewiston Police Station, according to a Mollison Way pediatrician. Dr. Linda Glass, owner of Lewiston Pediatric Associates at 33 Mollison Way, said she's worried about the impact the proposed Merrimack River Medical Services facility would have on her practice, which is across from the proposed site.
The Court of Appeals of Virginia has agreed to hear argument in the case of a Pulaski mother convicted of murder in connection with the death of her 3-year-old son. Lisa Michelle Hylton, 40, was convicted in 2010 of second-degree murder and child neglect in the death of her son, Trevor, who drank her methadone, apparently thinking it was cough syrup.
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