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Heroin Users Seeking Treatment May Hit Insurance Barriers – Boston Globe

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
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Heroin addicts face numerous barriers to treatment – Bennington Banner

Heroin addicts face numerous barriers to treatment
Bennington Banner
The doctors shook their heads: Heroin withdrawal is not life-threatening, they said, and we can't admit you. Doctors gave him an IV flush to clean out his system, and sent him home. Marchese and his sister stayed up all night calling inpatient

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Report: Blackwood Man’s Plight Illustrates Difficulties Fighting Heroin – Patch.com

Report: Blackwood Man's Plight Illustrates Difficulties Fighting Heroin
Patch.com
Marchese was allegedly denied admittance to an emergency room because heroin withdrawal isn't considered life threatening; denied admittance to treatment facilities because heroin treatment wasn't covered by his insurance; and was mostly unable to find …

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‘We’re all paying:’ Heroin spreads misery in US – Northwest Herald

'We're all paying:' Heroin spreads misery in US
Northwest Herald
"If you stood next to somebody and just started a conversation about heroin, you'd hear: 'Oh yeah, my nephew's on heroin. My next-door neighbor's on heroin. My daughter's on heroin,'" says Abbott, who helped her own 27-year-old son through withdrawal

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