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 … |
‘He’s gone forever’: A Somerville family looks back on years of addiction – Wicked Local Sandwich
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'He's gone forever': A Somerville family looks back on years of addiction
Wicked Local Sandwich At least a half-dozen Somerville residents have suffered fatal heroin overdoses between Jan. 1 and April 15. Most were between the ages of 24 and 31, grew up in the same neighborhoods, went to the same schools and played on the same sports teams. |
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 … |
Brunswick not exempt from New England opiate epidemic – The Bowdoin Orient
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Brunswick not exempt from New England opiate epidemic
The Bowdoin Orient Treatment for opiate addiction generally includes detoxification, followed by counseling and the controlled use of medications like Methadone or Buprenorphine (often referred to by the brand name Suboxone). These medications act on the same parts of … |
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 In this February 2014 photo, Karen Lewis listens to her son, Cody, a recovering heroin addict, talk abut his life and addiction at the Good Samaritan Methodist Church in Addison, Ill. About a month after his release from a court-ordered 8½-month … Treatment for addicts must be available |