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Ireland Has 9615 Methadone Users but Care Plans Needed to Get Them Drug-Free
Ireland has 9615 methadone users but care plans needed to get them drug-free
Methadone can be provided as a maintenance or detox option for treating heroin addiction. The aim of moving addicts on to methadone is to stabilise the person on methadone or to work towards being drug free in the short or medium term. Earlier this …
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Lawyers, drugs and money: Calif. advocates push to raise malpractice cap
He became dependent on the addictive drugs and decided to check himself into a Laguna Beach, Calif., hospital to detox on Feb. 22, 2012. The next morning, he was dead. He was just 20 years old. “Between 5 and 11 p.m., they gave him 11 medications,'' …
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Heroin Hits Close to Home – Coastal Point
Heroin hits close to home – Coastal Point
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Heroin hits close to home
Coastal Point Even though there are drugs that keep people off of heroin, when you withdrawal from that it's worse than the heroin,” he said. “It'll make the first week of detox bearable, but if you continue to do it after that, you're just going to get addicted to … |
Chronicling a heroin addict’s life – Boston Globe
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Chronicling a heroin addict's life
Boston Globe The withdrawal was hell, and Jonathan said he never wanted to go through anything like that again. But he relapsed, again and again. Eventually he started doing something he vowed he never would: inject heroin. Of his group of 10 friends, one was dead, … |
Fairfax Mother Of Young Heroin Addict: ‘There Were Clues. But We Had No Clue.’ – Huffington Post
5 Ways to Help Heroin Addicts
5 ways to help heroin addicts
With heroin overdoses on the rise, advocates want more access to treatment, and Good Samaritan laws.
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Officials gather in Utica to discuss local heroin problem
UTICA — Heroin and other opioid addiction is on the rise in New York. On Tuesday, the Senate Joint Task Force held a forum at the State Office Building in Utica.
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NC9 Special Report: Heroin use spiking in the Borderland
A huge spike in heroin use across this country has law enforcement scrambling to react. The number of users has almost doubled in the U.S. over the past decade, while overdose deaths here in Texas have more than tripled. Promote to Mobile 0 read more
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City Agrees to Pay $160K to Estate of Inmate Who Died in Jail
City agrees to pay 0K to estate of inmate who died in jail
Sparks, 27, died April 12, 2012, six days after being arrested on a theft charge and while detoxing from a heroin addiction. Last August, the estate settled for an undisclosed amount with the jail's former medical provider, Corizon. … But Gladstein …
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At 21, recovering heroin addict gets a new start
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. Almost immediately, he spent $ 10 on yet another bag of smack, making the buy on the Chicago streets last May as he …
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Doctor: We Need Heroin Legislation – Cincinnati.com
Doctor: We need heroin legislation – Cincinnati.com
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Doctor: We need heroin legislation
Cincinnati.com Holly Specht holds a photo of her son Nicholas, who died last year of a heroin overdose, during a January hearing on a Kentucky Senate bill designed to curb heroin abuse and help addicts get treatment. The bill did not pass. (Photo: The Enquirer … |
Fairfax Mother Of Young Heroin Addict: ‘There Were Clues. But We Had No Clue.’ – Huffington Post
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Fairfax Mother Of Young Heroin Addict: 'There Were Clues. But We Had No Clue.'
Huffington Post Brennan, 20, thought about Walker, who had grown up in the same Fairfax County subdivision and was sober, healthy, close with his parents again. Look how happy he is, Brennan thought. I want to be like that. A few nights later, Brennan was in a detox … |
Doctor: We Need Heroin Legislation – Cincinnati.com
Doctor: We need heroin legislation – Cincinnati.com
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Doctor: We need heroin legislation
Cincinnati.com Holly Specht holds a photo of her son Nicholas, who died last year of a heroin overdose, during a January hearing on a Kentucky Senate bill designed to curb heroin abuse and help addicts get treatment. The bill did not pass. (Photo: The Enquirer … |
Fairfax Mother Of Young Heroin Addict: ‘There Were Clues. But We Had No Clue.’ – Huffington Post
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Fairfax Mother Of Young Heroin Addict: 'There Were Clues. But We Had No Clue.'
Huffington Post Brennan, 20, thought about Walker, who had grown up in the same Fairfax County subdivision and was sober, healthy, close with his parents again. Look how happy he is, Brennan thought. I want to be like that. A few nights later, Brennan was in a detox … |