Mom accused of dosing daughter with methadone

A Springfield woman has denied charges she gave her 13-year-old daughter methadone.

http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100510/NEWS02/5100353     # # # # Mom accused of dosing daughter with methadone  •  Rutland Herald  •  By Josh O'Gorman STAFF WRITER - Published: May 10, 2010  •  WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Springfield woman has denied charges she gave her 13-year-old daughter methadone.  •  Mary J. Soubble, 53, of Birch Court, pleaded innocent last week in White River Junction District Court to a felony charge of giving a regulated drug to a minor, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.  •  According to affidavits filed with the court, in early March, the Department for Children and Families notified Springfield police of an investigation of a child abuse complaint. Police first spoke with the girl, who said she began to have terrible headaches in mid-February, records state. Affidavits state the girl told police Soubble gave her some of her (Soubble's) medication.  •  The girl said her mother gave her the medication three or four times a day for a week, and when she stopped taking it she began to have what she called "mini seizures" because she would shake, affidavits state.  •  Police interviewed the girl's father, who said he took his daughter to a doctor and learned her headaches might have been due to her withdrawing from a medication, records state. The father told police his daughter has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and takes the prescription medication Metadate.  •  According to the father, the mother had taken all of her daughter's Metadate and began giving her methadone to combat the accompanying headaches, according to affidavits.  •  Police next interviewed Soubble, who confirmed trying her daughter's Metadate, records state. Soubble told police she also has ADHD and takes Adderall, but her medication wasn't working so she tried her daughter's. As her daughter began to have headaches, Soubble told police, she gave her daughter 10 milligrams of methadone three or four times a day for a week, police said.  •  Soubble told police she is prescribed methadone for her headaches, records state. She is free without posting bail.  •