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Is Heroin Destroying Our Nation's Youth?

Is Heroin Destroying Our Nation's Youth?
Often teens who are “loners” use heroin to fill the void that is present because of the lack of emotional support from their parents at home. Drug abuse has also been frequently linked to … The main goal of detoxification is to alleviate withdrawal …
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Moral Courage: NYC's Street Celeb
And of course not all maintenance programs are created equal, and the opiate addiction drugs we already use regularly, such as methadone, have their problems, too, including being difficult to detox from. Many neighborhoods dislike having methadone …
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A Project Is Helping Many of Liverpool's Street Drinkers to Turn Their Lives

A project is helping many of Liverpool's street drinkers to turn their lives
Outreach workers have contacted more than 180 people in the city centre and the Kensington area to offer advice and support about reducing drinking levels and, where appropriate, helped them with accommodation and medical needs. Unlike existing …
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CVS Goes Cold Turkey

CVS Goes Cold Turkey
The business is growing far more rapidly than CVS's store-based businesses. In the third quarter of 2013, the Pharmacy Services Segment, with revenues of $ 19.5 billion, up 7.8 percent from the year before, accounted for 54 percent of the company's …
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Deaths From Heroin in New London, Norwich Doubled in 2013 – TheDay.com

Deaths from heroin in New London, Norwich doubled in 2013 – TheDay.com

Deaths from heroin in New London, Norwich doubled in 2013
TheDay.com
SCADD runs outpatient facilities in New London and Norwich, along with a 20-bed detox facility for heroin addicts in New London. Someone who starts taking prescription drugs can quickly get addicted, Malone said. Once the prescription drugs run out or

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Painless Heroin Detox and Naltrexone Implant

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As heroin overdoses surge, so does treatment training
From the streets, to the social-service agencies, to the police station and to the courts, officials have described the increase in heroin as an “epidemic,” a significant contribution to crime in the city and a major public-health problem. Recent high …
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Trying to move past daughter's heroin overdose, mother gets involved
Still, after the detox, in early 2013, Ivy abstained from heroin for 64 days. To mark a change, she peroxided her hair. Hale told her that she looked like Marilyn Monroe. “More like Gwen Stefani,” her daughter replied. During that period, Hale was …
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Heroin Overdose ‘Cure’ Exists, but Can Users Find It? – NBCNews.com

Heroin Overdose ‘Cure’ Exists, But Can Users Find It? – NBCNews.com

Heroin Overdose 'Cure' Exists, But Can Users Find It?
NBCNews.com
“It's important to be creative and think about where you are going to find high-risk people and engage and empower them,” Walley said noting particular dangers for those coming off of rehabilitation or detox due to lower drug tolerance. Helton, the

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Outpatient opioid addiction treatment is more available – Albuquerque Journal (subscription)

Outpatient opioid addiction treatment is more available
Albuquerque Journal (subscription)
There is now more hope to tackle the “scourge” of heroin/opiate addiction that Jennifer Weiss relates in telling the painful story of her son's addiction and death. (“Heroin Scourge cuts across cultural and economic barriers” in the Feb. 15 Journal

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