Help Wanted: Personal Tales Show Few Detox Options for Local Heroin Addicts – Palladium-Item
Help wanted: Personal tales show few detox options for local heroin addicts – Palladium-Item
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Help wanted: Personal tales show few detox options for local heroin addicts
Palladium-Item Bobbie Jo Rains, 28, left, and roommate Kayla Pauly, 24, at Cross Road Christian Recovery Center for Women. Rains is putting her life back together after heroin addiction and time in prison for crimes she committed. / Robert Sullivan/Palladium-Item … |
Heroin ‘filled the hole’: For kid from suburbs, pot was first stop on road to … – Omaha World-Herald
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Heroin 'filled the hole': For kid from suburbs, pot was first stop on road to …
Omaha World-Herald But after six months, he said, he realized he'd replaced one addiction with another, so he entered a detox program. He has been sober since Oct. 12. Lewis attends Narcotics Anonymous meetings and group therapy and has begun speaking about his heroin … Treatment for addicts must be available |
Fighting heroin addiction / Treatment beds needed – Press of Atlantic City
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Fighting heroin addiction / Treatment beds needed
Press of Atlantic City Because heroin detox is not considered a life-threatening health issue (tell that to an addict or his family), many insurers refuse to pay for full treatment. Pennsylvania requires health insurers to provide coverage for treatment services considered … |
Why heroin is making a deadly comeback – Heroin is chemically almost identical to prescription painkillers. But the illegal drug is more dangerous and much cheaper than regulated opiates. Jeffrey Br…