Help Wanted: Personal Tales Show Few Detox Options for Local Heroin Addicts – Palladium-Item
Help wanted: Personal tales show few detox options for local heroin addicts – Palladium-Item
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Help wanted: Personal tales show few detox options for local heroin addicts
Palladium-Item Bobbie Jo Rains, 28, left, and roommate Kayla Pauly, 24, at Cross Road Christian Recovery Center for Women. Rains is putting her life back together after heroin addiction and time in prison for crimes she committed. / Robert Sullivan/Palladium-Item … |
Heroin ‘filled the hole’: For kid from suburbs, pot was first stop on road to … – Omaha World-Herald
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Heroin 'filled the hole': For kid from suburbs, pot was first stop on road to …
Omaha World-Herald But after six months, he said, he realized he'd replaced one addiction with another, so he entered a detox program. He has been sober since Oct. 12. Lewis attends Narcotics Anonymous meetings and group therapy and has begun speaking about his heroin … Treatment for addicts must be available |
‘Wicked Sober’ Connects Addicts and Their Families With the Right Resources – Boston magazine’s Boston Daily (blog)
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'Wicked Sober' Connects Addicts and Their Families With the Right Resources
Boston magazine’s Boston Daily (blog) Soon after, as the habit to use Oxycontin became too expensive, he turned to heroin to keep his withdrawal symptoms in check—a sequence of abuse that's all too familiar for those addicted to the drug. Now on the mend for half a decade, Duggan, a … |
Fighting heroin addiction / Treatment beds needed – Press of Atlantic City
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Fighting heroin addiction / Treatment beds needed
Press of Atlantic City Because heroin detox is not considered a life-threatening health issue (tell that to an addict or his family), many insurers refuse to pay for full treatment. Pennsylvania requires health insurers to provide coverage for treatment services considered … |
At hearing, too-familiar tales of heroin’s grip – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
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At hearing, too-familiar tales of heroin's grip
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle She was addressing the state Senate Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction on its swing through Rochester and speaking of her son, a 23-year-old addict whose dependence has cost him and his family everything but their lives. "My son's Facebook … Forum addresses area's growing heroin problem |