Efforts to Limit Prescription Pills Could Push Heroin Use
Efforts to limit prescription pills could push heroin use
GLEN MILLS A number: Treatment admissions for opiates, mainly prescription painkillers, rose 693 percent in three years in Delaware County. A prediction: Tightening Pennsylvania laws to limit availability of the pills could result in an increase in …
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Former Pill, Heroin Addict Says Monthly Injections Helps him Fight Drug Cravings
I was good…. running the bases I broke my ankle around eight years ago", Explains Travis Brugger, 41, for his addiction to painkillers and then heroin. "When my prescription ran out I found them [pills] on the street. I had to have … had to have …
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Episode 391: The Anti-Addiction Pill That's Big Business For Drug Dealers
There's a pill called Suboxone that treats addiction to heroin and pain pills like oxycontin. Doctors and addicts say it's amazing. "It was the best thing that ever happened," one heroin addict told us. "I was like OH. MY. LORD. This is a miracle pill.".
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