Police:?Baltimore, Area's Heroin Issue Linked
Police:?Baltimore, area's heroin issue linked
Citing easy access via major highways, cheap street prices and a veritable abundance of supply, local police officials say that it can take addicts and drug dealers just a few hours to make a trip to Baltimore to get heroin and return with it to the …
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Pain drug abuse fuels competition, legal battles for companies
It's just urine. But for a Baltimore company and a rival, it's liquid gold worth bruising legal battles. When a patient is prescribed a powerful painkiller like Vicodin or OxyContin, many doctors require periodic urine tests to check dosage levels as …
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Prep Notebook: Bulldogs, Hornets lead NCHSAA's '100 to Remember'
… when he was one of the top baseball prospects in the nation…first pro season was '99 and played in Futures Game in 2000…after battling drug addiction and being out of baseball, outfielder made remarkable comeback to play in majors starting in …
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Heroin use rising dramatically in Delaware
“Now you are getting a ton of heroin on the cheap. The prices are back to what they were in the '80s, which means an excessive amount of heroin is coming in from New York to Philadelphia to Delaware to Baltimore.” A baggie typically contains 0.02 grams …
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