Former Drug Dealer: Getting Methadone Paid for by State 'Was an Easy Scam'

Former drug dealer: Getting methadone paid for by state 'was an easy scam'

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… much of that methadone, he said, was paid for by the state of Minnesota. The 33-year-old was a drug addict who said he enrolled as a patient at the Lake Superior Treatment Center about six years ago and got state-funded health insurance to pay for …
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Minnesota: Methadone treatment comes at a price, newspaper reports

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Nearly 400 people in Minnesota have died in the past 12 years of overdoses involving methadone, which is used to treat opiate addiction, the Duluth News Tribune reported. Methadone has been used to break the cycle of addiction since the 1960s.
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