At 21, Recovering Heroin Addict Starts Over
At 21, recovering heroin addict starts over
AURORA, Ill. (AP) — Just out of Cook County Jail after being arrested with 15 bags of heroin, Cody Lewis had all of $ 11 in his pocket. But not for long.
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0-a-day heroin addict turns life around at 21
In many ways, Lewis represents the changing face of heroin in America. He is in his 20s, lives in the suburbs — two traits that fit a growing number of users — and graduated to heroin after years of getting high with other drugs.
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'We're all paying:' Heroin spreads misery in US
On a beautiful Sunday last October, Detective Dan Douglas stood in a suburban Minnesota home and looked down at a lifeless 20-year-old – a needle mark in his arm, a syringe in his pocket. It didn't take long for Douglas to realize that the man, fresh out of treatment, was his second heroin overdose that day.
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'We're all paying:' Heroin spreads misery in U.S.
On a beautiful Sunday last October, Detective Dan Douglas stood in a suburban Minnesota home and looked down at a lifeless 20-year-old — a needle mark in his arm, a syringe in his pocket. It didn't take long for Douglas to realize that the man, fresh out of treatment, was his second heroin overdose that day.
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New device could make heroin overdose antidote more readily available
Ten years ago, Cumberland County Coroner Charley Hall said his office dealt with four cases of drug overdose deaths.
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