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Coroner: Bucks Inmate Died of Heart Failure During Heroin Withdrawal – Bucks County Courier Times

Coroner: Bucks inmate died of heart failure during heroin withdrawal – Bucks County Courier Times

Coroner: Bucks inmate died of heart failure during heroin withdrawal
Bucks County Courier Times
heroin withdrawal By Jo Ciavaglia Staff writer Bucks County Courier Times. A 49-year-old Bensalem woman found dead inside her Bucks County prison cell suffered sudden cardiac death during heroin detoxification, according to the Bucks County coroner.

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Coroner: Pa. prison death due to heart attack – SFGate

Coroner: Pa. prison death due to heart attack
SFGate
… Campbell said Yarnell was alive when Bucks County prison guards checked on her Saturday morning, but she was found dead several hours later. Campbell said an autopsy determined that Yarnell, a heroin addict, had heart disease, an enlarged heart and

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St. Louis settles lawsuit over inmate’s heroin withdrawal death – STLtoday.com

St. Louis settles lawsuit over inmate's heroin withdrawal death
STLtoday.com
ST. LOUIS • The City of St. Louis this week settled a lawsuit that alleged that medical negligence and heroin withdrawal caused the death of a jail inmate. Isaac Bennett Jr. was jailed on July 23, 2007, and told a nurse that he was a heroin addict who

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Watch: Heroin epidemic gives rise to a generation of ‘Suboxone babies’ – Al Jazeera America (blog)


Al Jazeera America (blog)

Watch: Heroin epidemic gives rise to a generation of 'Suboxone babies'
Al Jazeera America (blog)
And pregnant women on the drug transmit it to the unborn baby in utero. After birth, a percentage of infants suffer from “neonatal abstinence syndrome,” or withdrawal. By her 20th birthday, Coleman was hooked on heroin, and she lived with the addiction

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