Overdosing on Heroin: This Drug Can Bring Them Back
Overdosing on heroin: This drug can bring them back
Like most of the country, Ohio has witnessed a surge in heroin use reminiscent of the smack crazes of the 1970s and 1980s. Much of the surge, which the Los Angeles Times wrote about in Tuesday's edition, is driven by pain-pill users switching to heroin …
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Skyrocketing heroin use in Central Oregon
He came as close as possible to a fatal heroin overdose without dying, narrowly avoiding adding his name to growing list of casualties that has gone largely unnoticed in Central Oregon. “It's horrible … Koland, 29, came to Bend to escape the …
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Philip Seymour Hoffman: Naloxone could spare others from his fate
Now that we've had time to digest the news of Philip Seymour Hoffman's death from an apparent heroin overdose on Feb. 2, and to debate the nature of … Lynne Lyman, California state director for the Drug Policy Alliance, actually wrote an Op-Ed about …
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