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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – the Journal News / Lohud.com

Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment – The Journal News / Lohud.com


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Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
The Journal News / Lohud.com
The doctors shook their heads: Heroin withdrawal is not life-threatening, they said, and we can't admit you. They gave him an IV flush, and sent him home. Marchese, then 26, and his sister called multiple inpatient clinics only to be told: We have no beds.
Fast facts about some obstacles to heroin sobrietyVentura County Star

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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
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.
Coroner: Pa. prison death due to heart attackNew Jersey Herald

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Heroin users seeking treatment may hit insurance barriers – 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 bills seek to prosecute, medicate – LSU The Reveille

Heroin bills seek to prosecute, medicate
LSU The Reveille
He said it works by binding to the same opiate receptors heroin would, but instead of inducing the sedative high, it sends the user into “acute withdrawal symptoms,” like nausea, pain and diarrhea, among other things. The risks associated with Narcan

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