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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 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
Crimean heroin addicts deprived of methadone because Russia bans itCTV News

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Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Heroin overdose deaths on the rise in Hennepin County – Thursday morning at North Memorial Medical Center, a 29-year-old woman named Amanda from Pine City told her story about her one-time addiction to heroin and …