Archive for the ‘Heroin Detox’ Category
AP News in Brief at 5:58 A.m. EDT
AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the U.S. government agency that secretly created a "Cuban Twitter" communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba is expected to testify next week before a senator who thinks the whole idea …
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At 21, Recovering Heroin Addict From Aurora Looks for a Fresh Start in Life
At 21, recovering heroin addict from Aurora looks for a fresh start in life
He and a girlfriend had taken heroin with a woman who'd overdosed and died in her sleep. Lewis urged him to call the cops. Afterward, he says, his … But after six months, he says, he realized he'd replaced one addiction with another, so he entered a …
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At 21, a recovering heroin addict starts over
By then, Lewis was a $ 100-a-day addict. Heroin was no longer fun. He needed it to get rid of the sweats and the shakes, the body cramps, the aches in his bones. “I had to use,” he says, “to feel normal, like a regular person.” Lewis was consumed by …
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Inmate Deaths Raise Questions About Jail Detox Procedures – the Intelligencer
Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures – The Intelligencer
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Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures
The Intelligencer In her third day of heroin detox in the Bucks County prison on March 22, Marlene Yarnall received the scheduled doses of medications to ease her withdrawal symptoms around 8:15 a.m., according to a prison administrator. For the next three hours … |
Recovering heroin addict tells his story of being ‘Suburban Junky’ – KSDK
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Recovering heroin addict tells his story of being 'Suburban Junky'
KSDK Hassan quickly went from smoking pot to shooting heroin. It took an enforced detox in a jail cell and his father's cancer to give him the will to climb out of the deep, dark hole he'd lived in for six years. Now, sober for nearly seven years, its … |
Parents Seek Naloxone to Help Their Adult Kids
Parents seek naloxone to help their adult kids
The pharmaceutical, which is not a scheduled drug but requires a prescription, causes immediate withdrawal in people overdosed from heroin and opioids, such as prescription painkillers. Because Wright's daughter is pregnant, Engel told her to use it …
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Hanover vs. Heroin: Not Just an Urban Problem
Hanover vs. heroin: Not just an urban problem
Tracy Lawrence-Felton holds a sign she brings to heroin awareness rallies, which has a picture of her son, who died of a heroin overdose four years ago, on it in her Hanover home April 1. 'You're able to function but you're not able to live because …
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Heroin use rises in Ore.
Heroin overdoses in the Portland, area accounted for nearly as many deaths among young and middle-aged men as cancer or heart disease in 2000. When residents began to turn to prescription pills, heroin deaths dropped. But for those seeking treatment, …
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At 21, Recovering Heroin Addict Starts Over
At 21, recovering heroin addict starts over
By then, Lewis was a $ 100-a-day addict. Heroin was no longer fun. He needed it to get rid of the sweats and the shakes, the body cramps, the aches in his bones. "I had to use," he says, "to feel normal, like a regular person." Lewis was consumed by …
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