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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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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

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Doctors say heroin use has reached ‘epidemic’ status – WFSB

Doctors say heroin use has reached 'epidemic' status
WFSB
"These are normal everyday people out there working," he explained. When doctors stop writing prescriptions, they said people become desperate. They start going through withdrawal. That's when they said the patients turn to heroin. Doctors said it's a

Heroin Withdrawal – Google News