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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

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

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

Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Heroin Has Made Its Way to Alabama and Officials Are Shocked by Recent Death Tolls

Heroin has made its way to Alabama and officials are shocked by recent death tolls
Morris said it is a natural progression for those addicted to opiates and prescription pills, who want that high but at a lower price. TYTL.jpg. "Heroin is cheaper than prescription pharmaceuticals are," he said. The average street price of …
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Long road to recovery starts with first step for former heroin addict
But then came the day she was laying on the floor of her boyfriend's bathroom shaking uncontrollably from withdrawal. His suggestion to … A former Berkley court magistrate, 51st District Court Judge Jodi Debbrecht Switalski said Steingold's story is …
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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 sobrietyseattlepi.com

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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.
Prisoner found dead in cellWFMZ Allentown
Coroner: Woman's death in Philly-area prison due to heart attack during heroin Daily Journal
Coroner: Pa. prison death due to heart attackNew Jersey Herald

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Heroin Across America: We're All Paying

Heroin across America: We're all paying
The death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in February only underscored a problem many American communities already were combatting: the rising use of — and deaths from — heroin. First of a three-part series. …. A panicked voice shouts: "Help my …
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Heroin spreads misery in nation
In Butler County, Ohio, heroin overdose calls are so common that the longtime EMS coordinator likens the situation to "coming in and eating breakfast — you just kind of expect it to occur." A local rehab facility has a … A panicked voice shouts …
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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


SFGate

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 sobrietyseattlepi.com

all 232 news articles »

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.
Prisoner found dead in cellWFMZ Allentown
Coroner: Woman's death in Philly-area prison due to heart attack during heroin Daily Journal

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Hope After All

Hope After All
Based on his previous arrests, a previous unsuccessful attempt to complete drug court in 2008 and his relapses, expectations were low. “They didn't think I was going to make it,” he said, … Horizon Health Services, for example, has detox facilities …
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Drug company, doctors provide opiate addicts with narcotic
… Reckitt Bensicker created Suboxone as an opioid substitute to treat people addicted to heroin and other opiates. According to Suboxone's website, the treatment process entails short-term use of the drug to curb withdrawal symptoms along with …
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Heroin has 'corrosive effect' in New Hampshire
The upsurge, partly a byproduct of restrictions on prescription pills, has had pervasive effects in New Hampshire, where at least 69 people died last year from heroin overdoses, up from 16 in 2008 and fewer than 10 a little more than a decade ago. In …
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