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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – ABC News
Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – ABC News
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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment
ABC News 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 … Heroin users seeking treatment may hit insurance barriers |
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Fast facts about some obstacles to heroin sobriety – U-T San Diego
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Fast facts about some obstacles to heroin sobriety
U-T San Diego She was constantly told she didn't meet the “criteria” for treatment centers. She even got turned away from emergency rooms because doctors say alcohol withdrawal is life threatening, but heroin withdrawal is not. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)The Associated Press. |
5 Things to Know About Heroin Use, Getting Help
5 things to know about heroin use, getting help
The number of past-year heroin users in the U.S. has risen from 373,000 in 2007 to 669,000 in 2012, according to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder recently described the problem as "an urgent and growing public health crisis," as he called for more first responders to carry an antidote that can reverse the effects …
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Infographic: The Startling Rise in Heroin Use
Infographic: The Startling Rise in Heroin Use
Attorney General Eric Holder recently called heroin use in this country an "urgent public health crisis," citing that between 2006 and 2010, heroin overdose deaths have increased by 45-percent.
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Fast facts about obstacles to heroin sobriety
Treatment facilities are packed. Inpatient rehab is costly. Insurance companies have refused coverage. Addicts looking to get clean from heroin often face an uphill battle. A look at the process, and some of the obstacles to getting sober.
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Heroin Users Seeking Treatment May Hit Insurance Barriers – Boston Globe
Heroin users seeking treatment may hit insurance barriers – Boston Globe
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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 addicts face barriers to treatment Fast facts about some obstacles to heroin sobriety |
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Heroin addicts face numerous barriers to treatment – Bennington Banner
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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 … |
The Epidemic Began With an Effort to Reduce Pain; for Donna Read, That Effort …
The epidemic began with an effort to reduce pain; For Donna Read, that effort …
I wanted to sleep. It made me depressed.” The decision to prescribe oxycodone was hardly an unusual choice in 2007. That year, some 232,000 oxycodone scripts were filled in Rhode Island, making oxycodone the second most frequently prescribed controlled …
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Naloxone: A lifesaver that is quickly gaining appeal
Registered Nurse Babette Richter holds up a container of the heroin overdose reversal drug naloxone during a South Jersey AIDS Alliance training for laypeople – addicts, family members, and friends – in Camden in February. Naloxone, also known by …
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From Cost and Coverage to Finding a Free Bed, Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment
From cost and coverage to finding a free bed, heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
NEW YORK — As the ranks of heroin users rise, increasing numbers of addicts are looking for help but are failing to find it — because there are no beds in packed facilities, treatment is hugely expensive and insurance companies won't pay for inpatient rehab.
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