Heroin Addiction in the News

Heroin Addiction: Weighty issues
It seems so simple: Too much food and too little activity make people fat. But the actual processes that create and perpetuate that imbalance are proving to be astoundingly complex. Biology, physiology, psychology, genetics and environment figure in the obesity equation to varying degrees. Scientists are trying to understand how, in recent decades, the population has bloated to a point that lean …
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Heroin Addiction: Detroit feeding OxyContin addiction; supply runs down I-75
It came as no surprise that the prescription painkillers were from Detroit. A West Virginia detective had received a tip about suspicious activity in Room 358 at the Microtel Hotel in South Charleston. He went to the room and held up his badge to the peephole.
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Heroin Addiction: Alfred M. Freedman, MD, 1917-2011
Alfred Freedman was an eminent psychiatric educator, a leader of his profession, and a man willing to challenge public prejudice. He was also one of my closest friends.
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Heroin Addiction: Drugstore Cowboy
Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy is one of the best portrayals of drug addiction ever filmed, and as such it has a particularly awesome trip scene. When Bob Gale shoots up in the back seat, the wheels come off for one great heroin trip.
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