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Methadone Warning
November 28, 2006 - Methadone unlike other painkillers is effective for a few hours, but it sticks around in the body for a long time so patients have a tendency to overmedicate and then... - Read more

Daniel Smith's Overdose Death
September 27, 2006 - Dr. Lynn Webster, an expert in pain management, has studied methadone related deaths across the country. He has crucial information on how to prevent similar tragedies.... - Read more

Methadone: One Pill Can Kill.
September 22, 2006 - “One pill can be lethal.” Dr. Lynn Webster analyzed methadone deaths nationally, and he says that the main problem is with new users. The drug doesn’t kick in right away, tempting overdose. “Often... - Read more

Zero Deaths Campaign Launched to Stop Deaths from Prescription Painkillers
June 15, 2006 - Almost once a day pain killing drugs prescribed by a doctor kills someone in Utah. “It has escalated tremendously at an alarming rate, which concerns me.” Like most pain specialists, Dr.... - Read more

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The Killer Cure: New warning issued on methadone.
November 28, 2006 - 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,... - Read more

Utah Physician Fighting Accidental Overdoses
October 27, 2006 - Lynn Webster, president of the Utah Academy of Pain Medicine and medical director of Lifetree Clinical Research and Pain Clinic in Salt Lake City and Ogden, will present his “Zero... - Read more

Daniel Smith's Overdose
October 16, 2006 - Known primarily as the drug prescribed for heroin withdrawal, methadone is gaining popularity as a painkiller – with sometimes deadly results. From 1999 to 2002 the number of methadone-related deaths tripled... - Read more

Campaign launched to eliminate overdose deaths
June 26, 2006 - Dr. Lynn R. Webster visited Vernal to present a seminar on pain-related medical topics. His seminar was the first of such seminars that will be... - Read more

The Killer Cure: Patients Are the Ones At Risk
June 11, 2006 - 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... - Read more

The Killer Cure: Despite deaths, methadone prescriptions multiply.
June 5, 2006 - 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 —... - Read more

The Killer Cure; A deadly dose
June 4, 2006 - 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... - Read more

The Killer Cure: Deaths Tied to Methadone Escalate Across State, Nation.
June 4, 2006 -   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”... - Read more

Guest Speaker Says Pain Medicine Often Underprescribed
February 14, 2006 - As Dr. Lynn Webster sees it, there’s a big pain problem in this country that is only to get worse if something isn’t done soon. Webster, the medical director of Lifetree... - Read more