Blogroll

Virtual Drug Treatment Has Real-World Impacts – Patch.com

Heroin Addiction: Virtual Drug Treatment Has Real-World Impacts – Patch.com

Virtual Drug Treatment Has Real-World Impacts
Patch.com
A pilot program at Janus of Santa Cruz uses avatars and computers to help heroin addicts. By Jennifer Squires | Email the author | 3:00pm Seated in front of a computer in the corner of an L-shaped office, David Molina teleports his avatar — a younger,

and more »

Heroin Addiction – Google News

Heroin Addiction: See & Do: What’s happening around town – Melbounre Times Weekly

See & Do: What's happening around town
Melbounre Times Weekly
Veteran actor, Koori elder, activist and, until recently, heroin addict and cat-burglar Uncle Jack Charles (pictured) brings his incredible life story, Jack Charles v The Crown, to Turning Point for the first time. Jack's story is one of unswerving

Heroin Addiction – Google News

Heroin Addiction: 40 Years of Drug War Hasn’t Worked; “Time for a Change,” Says 9-Year Veteran – WhyProhibition.ca (blog)


Mother Nature Network (blog)

40 Years of Drug War Hasn't Worked; "Time for a Change," Says 9-Year Veteran
WhyProhibition.ca (blog)
In his 1971 message, Nixon lamented 1000 narcotics deaths in New York City in 1970, then the epicenter of the heroin addiction problem. At the end of 1979, the annual number of drug abuse deaths was 7101, which grew to 9976 in 1986, the year basketball
Peirce: The failed war on drugsDenver Post
Ian Birrell: Support the failed war on drugs? You must be stonedNew Zealand Herald
Why Are Drugs Illegal?Opposing Views
Amarillo.com –Patch.com
all 26 news articles »

Heroin Addiction – Google News

Heroin Addiction: Heroin Addict survives coma and gets care at Brighton 0001



A young woman has a brush with death in a coma induced by her heroin addiction. She started in an affluent suburban high school taking pain killers, oxycontin and then graduating to heroin. Her high school peers, in one of the wealthiest suburbs in the nation, find heroin use common, widespread, and “almost normal.” She desribes her coma, her struggles with recovery, her inpatient drug treatment at Brighton Hospital and her aftercare planning and care at Brighton at the Corners in West Bloomfield, MI, where she participates in the Intensive Outpatient Program, IOP. Brighton at the Corners is convenient to recovering patients from Oakland County, Macomb County, Wayne County and other suburban Michigan communities.
Video Rating: 3 / 5

Find More Heroin Addiction Information…