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The Killer Cure

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.

June 04, 2006
Deaths tied to methadone escalate across state, nation
Feds approve outdated, potentially deadly drug information
One increasingly popular painkiller is helping to kill more people than any other prescription narcotic, a Sunday Gazette-Mail investigation has found.
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A deadly dose
FDA-approved language called “extremely dangerous”
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.
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How we did it
The Sunday Gazette-Mail’s investigation of nationwide methadone deaths was prompted by an obscure entry in a West Virginia vital statistics report.
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What is methadone?

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June 05, 2006
Despite deaths, methadone prescriptions multiply
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.
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Federal overdose report written by industry insider
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.
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June 06, 2006
'One pill can kill'
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. Sixteen-year-old Josh Engebregtsen and three of his friends decided to go. His mother, Sue, remembers the night. Everything seemed so normal.
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June 09, 2006
Methadone
Dangerous medicine
ACROSS West Virginia and the nation, patients consume a powerful painkiller called methadone, and an alarming number of them die.
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June 11, 2006
Patients are ‘the ones at risk’
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 overdose deaths being blamed on the prescription painkiller methadone.
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June 12, 2006
Health pros to get methadone briefs
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.
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June 15, 2006
Methadone
Strengthen the FDA
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 packages.
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