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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – NPR

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment – NPR

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.

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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

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – NPR

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment – NPR

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.

and more »

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.

and more »

Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

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

'We Lost the War in Afghanistan and It Broke My Heart': Graeme Smith

'We lost the war in Afghanistan and it broke my heart': Graeme Smith
The years when our armies pounded their way into the south will be remembered for heights of violence that exceeded the gruesome body count of the Taliban wars in the 1990s.' By GRAEME SMITH | Published: … Now the foreign troops are withdrawing. We …
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Fast Facts About Some Obstacles to Heroin Sobriety

Fast facts about some obstacles to heroin sobriety
Insurance companies have refused coverage. The withdrawal itself doesn't kill, but if addicts can't persevere, they often go back to heroin, with lowered tolerance, and many overdose. […] of the 23.1 million Americans who needed treatment for drugs or alcohol in 2012, only 2.5 million people received aid at a specialty facility. While most insurance policies state that they allow coverage of …
Heroin Withdrawal – Yahoo News Search Results

Heroin in a Small Town

Heroin in a small town
The numbers are growing.
Heroin Withdrawal – Yahoo News Search Results

Kentuckiana Faces Rising Problem of Drug Abuse and Addiction

Kentuckiana faces rising problem of drug abuse and addiction
According to a recent report by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC), overdose deaths due to heroin rose 207 percent between 2011 and 2012. According to the report, …. “Even if it's just anxiety or depression, things as simple …
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Is FDA's Margaret Hamburg, MD Contributing to the U.S. Heroin and Opioid
Abbott Laboratories promoted OxyContin, or "hillbilly heroin" to anesthesiologists, surgeons, emergency physicians and pain management teams in hospitals and surgery centers throughout the country beginning in 1996 — while Purdue Pharma marketed …
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Heroin epidemic younger, whiter
As the meeting starts, every chair is taken. This meeting of Heroin Anonymous, a fast-growing group in Toledo that formed this year, provides a snapshot of the city's and state's opioid and heroin epidemic. … As their tolerance for the drug rises …
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