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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

Heroin Deaths on the Rise in Arizona

Heroin deaths on the rise in Arizona
My next-door neighbor's on heroin,'" says Candy Murray Abbott, who helped her own 27-year-old son through withdrawal. Heroin-related deaths have more than tripled in Butler County, where Hamilton is the county seat. There were 55 deaths last year, and …
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New Jersey Herald – AP News in Brief at 10:58 pm EDT
PERTH, Australia (AP) – A British navy ship with sophisticated sound-locating equipment arrived Monday in a patch of the southern Indian Ocean to determine whether underwater sounds picked up by a Chinese ship crew using a hand-held device came from …
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Heroin Is on the Rise in the Hudson Valley

Heroin is on the rise in the Hudson Valley
Heroin has become so prevalent in Ulster, Sullivan and Orange counties, it knows no geographical or economic boundary.
Heroin Withdrawal – Yahoo News Search Results

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

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

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.

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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

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

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

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.

and more »

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

Barnstaple Man Caught With Scales, Cash and £1200 Worth of Heroin Denies

Barnstaple man caught with scales, cash and £1200 worth of heroin denies
The street value may have been £1,219 but what I paid for it was completely different. I paid about £300.” He said he had given a small amount of his personal supply to a friend who was suffering withdrawal symptoms but had not sold it. The trial …
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