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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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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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Heroin Overdoses Up 800 Percent in Some Hospitals – WHAG

Heroin Overdoses Up 800 Percent in Some Hospitals
WHAG
We're seeing increased numbers of all the complications of heroin use: overdose, drug withdrawal, infections. This is more than we've ever seen before," said Potter. The heroin epidemic has gotten so bad, Valley Health hospitals report seeing a 500 to

Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Wickham testifies in heroin trial – Carrie Wickham, the Portage teen who is accused of supplying the heroin prosecutors say killed her friend, sobbed at times as she recalled the night Amy Bous…