Archive for the ‘Heroin Withdrawal’ Category
Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – NPR
Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment – NPR
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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment
NPR 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. |
Heroin Withdrawal – Google News
Coroner: Bucks inmate died of heart failure during heroin withdrawal – Bucks County Courier Times
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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. Prisoner found dead in cell Coroner: Woman's death in Philly-area prison due to heart attack during heroin … Coroner: Bucks County prison death due to heart attack |
Life After Heroin
Life after heroin
After shooting up a half-gram of heroin and swallowing 40 Xanax pills in a small wooded area behind Clinton Memorial Hospital, Skip Shields leaned against a tree and waited to die. The area was quiet, peaceful and serene, something the 61-year-old …
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Overdose drug is approved
Narcan sends the victim into immediate withdrawal and reverses the effects of the drug by helping the person regain ability to breath. Paramedics … Narcan is easily administered in a nasal spray to counter overdoses of opiates including heroin …
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Long road to recovery starts with first step for former heroin addict
Mueller and Grossman spent weeks talking to people about the impact heroin is having in our neighborhoods, where the typical suburban heroin user isn't a strung-out druggie looking for a fix in a back alley, but one who may hold down a good job – or …
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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – NPR
Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment – NPR
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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment
NPR 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. |
Heroin Withdrawal – Google News
Coroner: Bucks inmate died of heart failure during heroin withdrawal – Bucks County Courier Times
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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. Prisoner found dead in cell Coroner: Woman's death in Philly-area prison due to heart attack during heroin … Coroner: Bucks County prison death due to heart attack |
PTSD and War's Effects on Veterans Can Take a Heavy Toll on Families
PTSD and war's effects on veterans can take a heavy toll on families
The conflicted and resentful reactions his family had after DuBosque came home are like those of millions of American families struggling to help loved ones cope with battle stress, drinking, fits of rage or other war-related behavioral issues …
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Treatment for addicts must be available
The April 7, 2014, page 1 story, "Looking for help: Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment," points to the unmet needs of people seeking a way out of one of the most persistent and costly social problems facing Greater Hazleton communities. And it's …
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Reckitt Leans Toward Separate Listing for Pharmaceuticals Unit
Reckitt Leans Toward Separate Listing for Pharmaceuticals Unit
LONDON (The Deal) — The U.K.'s Reckitt Benckiser said Wednesday it was leaning toward a separate listing for its prescription pharmaceuticals unit, whose core Suboxone heroin-withdrawal aid is losing U.S. market share to generic competition. The Slough, England company, which is reportedly a leading contender in the $ 10 billion-plus auction for Merck & Co.'s consumer healthcare unit, announced …
Heroin Withdrawal – Yahoo News Search Results
Drug Program in Jeopardy for Pregnant Women
Drug program in jeopardy for pregnant women
Babies with opiate-withdrawal symptoms are often born premature, with low birth-weights and disrupted heart rates and motor skills. NAS can also impact the baby's sensory stimulation, sleep and feeding patterns. Funded primarily with government grants, …
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Combat Vets Battle an Enemy Within: Addiction
In 12 years after 9/11, prescriptions of four primary opiate painkillers — oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, and methadone — rose 270 percent at VA hospitals, according to internal VA records obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting. Last …
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HIV/AIDS explodes in Russia as Putin eschews “western” science
Around 58% of those new Russian HIV infections are from IV drug use – Russia has one of the worst heroin problems in the world (and then when the government tried to stamp out heroin use, everyone switched to an even worse drug, the flesh-eating …
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