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Heroin's Climbing Death Toll Prompts Community Response
Heroin's climbing death toll prompts community response
New ideas to attack the heroin problem range from offering immunity to someone who's using drugs and who reports an overdose by calling 911 to giving police the ability to use a fast-acting drug that can revive someone who has overdosed.
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More New Hampshire emergency responders to carry anti-overdose drug Narcan
CONCORD – State health officials have expanded the number of emergency providers allowed to administer a drug to treat overdoses in the face of skyrocketing levels of heroin addiction and deaths in New Hampshire. Gov. Maggie Hassan announced Friday that the state’s Medical Control Board approved a measure to allow emergency medical technicians to give overdose victims Narcan, an “narcotic …
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UR Asks Student Heroin Users to Get Help – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
UR asks student heroin users to get help – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
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UR asks student heroin users to get help
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Investigators with the Rochester Police Department and the Monroe County Medical Examiner's Office have not attributed Richard's death to drug use, although students and published reports have speculated that heroin played a role. In carefully crafted … UR addresses heroin and other drugs on campus |
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Chicago’s heroin epidemic laid bare: Photographer spends a year with … – Daily Mail
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Chicago's heroin epidemic laid bare: Photographer spends a year with …
Daily Mail A bloodied drug addict falls into a stupor as he injects a bags-worth of potent Mexican heroin into his foot. Disturbing as it may be, this is an all-too-familiar sight on Chicago's West Side. The addict, named Rico, is just one of hundreds of the city … |
McDonalds Has Decided to Move Out of Crimea — Here's Why
McDonalds Has Decided to Move Out Of Crimea — Here's Why
In addition, Crimea will no longer have access to methadone, an opioid used to treat heroin addicts. The 800 or so recovering drug users in the region will no longer receive these medical supplies, and many worry about increasing drug use and HIV rates.
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Drugging America's Veterans: Painkiller Abuse Spreads as VA Becomes Vets …
This week, The Center for Investigative Reporting won a prestigious Peabody Award for his report that exposes how the Department of Veterans Affairs has become the drug dealer of choice for many veterans who are now addicted to prescription painkillers …
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UR Asks Student Heroin Users to Get Help – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
UR asks student heroin users to get help – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
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UR asks student heroin users to get help
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Investigators with the Rochester Police Department and the Monroe County Medical Examiner's Office have not attributed Richard's death to drug use, although students and published reports have speculated that heroin played a role. In carefully crafted … |
Heroin Addiction – Google News
Chicago’s heroin epidemic laid bare: Photographer spends a year with … – Daily Mail
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Chicago's heroin epidemic laid bare: Photographer spends a year with …
Daily Mail A bloodied drug addict falls into a stupor as he injects a bags-worth of potent Mexican heroin into his foot. Disturbing as it may be, this is an all-too-familiar sight on Chicago's West Side. The addict, named Rico, is just one of hundreds of the city … |
UR Asks Student Heroin Users to Get Help – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
UR asks student heroin users to get help – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
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UR asks student heroin users to get help
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Investigators with the Rochester Police Department and the Monroe County Medical Examiner's Office have not attributed Richard's death to drug use, although students and published reports have speculated that heroin played a role. In carefully crafted … University Of Rochester President Asks Drug Users To Seek Help |
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The scourge of heroin addiction – Boston Globe
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The scourge of heroin addiction
Boston Globe For example, why is medication management for the treatment of heroin/opioid addiction scorned by so many? In a recent Boston Globe article, Hillary Jacobs, director of Substance Abuse Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, acknowledged that … Candidate's viewpoint: Eric Lesser discusses policies to address heroin addiction |
Seeing Addiction for What It Is
Seeing addiction for what it is
Today we face a serious health care epidemic spurred on from the rapid rise of addiction to powerful narcotics that are easily obtainable and highly addictive. This social and health emergency begins from the medicine itself in a cycle that we have once seen. Heroin itself was legally sold on the market briefly in the early 1900s as a cough suppressant until it was outlawed as addiction became …
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Seized Crime Money To Fund Heroin Antidote Program In New York
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced the Community Overdose Prevention program on Thursday, saying it will let every state and local law enforcement officer carry naloxone.
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