This Gazette investigation focuses on methadone, a drug that not only can kill pain, but also can kill the person taking it, even at the recommended dosage.
December 31, 2006
A new study reveals that almost 4,000 Americans died of an overdose of the prescription drug methado ...
December 3, 2006
Big disparity in FDA’s methadone dose for addicts, pain patients
For two decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved dangerous dosing information about m ...
November 28, 2006
Agency spurred to act by record number of overdose deaths
Methadone “can cause death” if not taken exactly as prescribed, the federal Food and Drug Administra ...
October 1, 2006
A combination of methadone and two anti-depressant drugs killed the 20-year-old son of celebrity Ann ...
September 19, 2006
A nonprofit medical group is sponsoring statewide training Thursday on the safe use of the prescript ...
August 22, 2006
Precautions needed
AS more people learn the dangers of the powerful painkiller methadone, they are taking important ste ...
August 13, 2006
Prescriptions rising despite fatal O.D.s
The number of Americans who died of overdoses of the prescription drug methadone rose 213 percent in ...
August 13, 2006
West Virginia’s death rate from the prescription drug methadone is the nation’s highest. Next month, ...
July 23, 2006
A federal agency is developing a plan to deal with an increase in deaths tied to the prescription dr ...
June 15, 2006
Strengthen the FDA
GIVEN the dangers of the drug methadone recently outlined in the Gazette, you would think that the U ...
June 12, 2006
Pharmacists statewide will soon get information from the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy that will h ...
June 11, 2006
Senators want stronger FDA warning about methadone
Two U.S. senators are calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to respond to thousands of ov ...
June 9, 2006
Dangerous medicine
ACROSS West Virginia and the nation, patients consume a powerful painkiller called methadone, and an ...
June 6, 2006
Education, surveillance can prevent methadone overdose deaths
On Memorial Day weekend in 2004, a traveling fair came to the small town of Oconto Falls, Wis. Sixte ...
June 5, 2006
Lynda Lee was recuperating in her Texas home following back surgery one day in November 2004. The 59 ...
June 5, 2006
Five years ago, Mike Blake walked into his daughter’s bedroom and found his wife lying on the floor, ...
June 4, 2006
Feds approve outdated, potentially deadly drug information
One increasingly popular painkiller is helping to kill more people than any other prescription narco ...
June 4, 2006
FDA-approved language called “extremely dangerous”
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a “usual adult dosage” on the package insert for ...
June 4, 2006
The Sunday Gazette-Mail’s investigation of nationwide methadone deaths was prompted by an obscure en ...
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