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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – Sci-Tech Today

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – Sci-Tech Today

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment
Sci-Tech Today
Are heroin addicts getting the treatment they need to successfully beat their habits?Advocates say they are not, partly because the insurance industry has not come to grips with the dangers of heroin withdrawal and its aftermath. Heroin withdrawal does

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Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Heroin users seeking treatment may hit insurance barriers – Boston Globe


Boston Globe

Heroin users seeking treatment may hit insurance barriers
Boston Globe
Advocates say they are not, partly because the insurance industry has not come to grips with the dangers of heroin withdrawal and its aftermath. It is true that, unlike withdrawal from dependencies on alcohol or benzodiazepines like Xanax, heroin

Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

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


Al Jazeera America (blog)

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

Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

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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Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Crimea Heroin Addicts Deprived Of Methadone After Russia Annexation – Business Insider


Business Insider

Crimea Heroin Addicts Deprived Of Methadone After Russia Annexation
Business Insider
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) — Every morning, Sergei Kislov takes the bus to the rundown outskirts of this port city for the methadone doses that keep him off heroin without suffering withdrawal. Now that Russia has taken over Crimea, the trips are about

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Heroin Withdrawal – Google News