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Readers Discuss Heroin Addiction, Mental Illness and Kris Kristofferson – Washington Post

Readers discuss heroin addiction, mental illness and Kris Kristofferson – Washington Post

Readers discuss heroin addiction, mental illness and Kris Kristofferson
Washington Post
Thanks for the article “I am part of the new scourge of suburban heroin addicts” [Feb. 11]. I only hope that some young people will read it and maybe allow it to strike a chord in them! As a therapist working with people who use drugs, I wanted to say

Heroin Addiction – Google News

Brain changes in an addict make it hard to resist heroin and similar drugs – Washington Post


Washington Post

Brain changes in an addict make it hard to resist heroin and similar drugs
Washington Post
The death of Philip Seymour Hoffman this month has raised many questions about drug addiction, among them: What do drugs such as heroin do to the brain to make them so addictive? Can these chemical changes be undone? Over the past 20 years, 

Heroin Addiction – Google News

Program to help family members of those who die of heroin addiction – Bennington Banner

Program to help family members of those who die of heroin addiction
Bennington Banner
BENNINGTON — Federal prosecutors in Vermont are encountering a growing demographic in the courtroom; family members of people who have died from using heroin. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont has chosen to respond by creating a support 
US Attorney's office in Vt. starts support program for heroin addicts' familiesThe Republic

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Heroin Threatens Vermont’s Rural Paradise – Daily Beast

Heroin Threatens Vermont's Rural Paradise
Daily Beast
But after Governor Peter Shumlin's State of the State address last month, one he took the unusual step of devoting entirely to the local surge in heroin addiction, there was little left to anyone's imagination. Heroin addiction in Vermont is up 770

Heroin Addiction – Google News

Will Self on Philip Seymour Hoffman and Heroin addiction