INTERVIEW: Spotting Heroin Use in Your Home
INTERVIEW: Spotting Heroin Use in Your Home – Heroin use is on the rise in the metro. Adam Pederson, the prevention program manager at Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge, talks about what is leading kids…
Hooked on Heroin: Searching for treatment
Outpatient facilities like the ACBC are more important as detox programs admit fewer and fewer Heroin addicts because their withdrawals are not usually deadly. Pirich said most addicts refused from detox and who don't get help from a place like the …
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For addicts, there's help and hope
These powerful pills can cost $ 50 or more on the street, making heroin at $ 10 or less a bag an appealing option. But opiate addiction is no bargain, and recovery is far from easy. Detox is unpleasant at best; relapse is frequent, although certainly not …
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