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A BITTER PILL: Oxy’s Slippery Slope to Heroin – Wicked Local

A BITTER PILL: Oxy’s slippery slope to heroin – Wicked Local

A BITTER PILL: Oxy's slippery slope to heroin
Wicked Local
"So what you're seeing," says Gloucester Police Chief Leonard Campanello, is that "people who don't want the stigma of 'I take heroin' may start out with an OxyContin, and when the money runs out they turn to heroin to keep that dependency going

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Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Doctors’ lack of pain training puts patients at risk – Marion Star

Doctors' lack of pain training puts patients at risk
Marion Star
“I try to counsel them to either come down or get off altogether,” Atluri said. Patients on opioids for even short periods of time become physically dependent to some degree on the drugs. Severe withdrawal symptoms — including vomiting, diarrhea, cold
Is pain medicine helping, hurting?The Newark Advocate

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Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Confessions of a Small-Town Heroin Dealer – For the past few months I’ve been looking into the heroin and Oxycontin drug subcultures of Philadelphia and its suburbs. This video features an audio interv…