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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.
Prisoner found dead in cellWFMZ Allentown
Coroner: Woman's death in Philly-area prison due to heart attack during heroin The Republic
Coroner: Bucks County prison death due to heart attackThe Reporter

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Opiate Use on the Rise: Look for Signs

Opiate use on the rise: Look for signs
… interest in appearance, constricted pupils, drowsy behavior or nodding out even in mid-sentence, disorientation, irresponsibility at work or school, lying, manipulating and stealing, wearing long shirts and pants, even during warm weather …
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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.

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.
Prisoner found dead in cellWFMZ Allentown
Coroner: Woman's death in Philly-area prison due to heart attack during heroin The Republic
Coroner: Bucks County prison death due to heart attackThe Reporter

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Teen Shot Mother of His Child in the Head as Their Son Sat Between Them

Teen shot mother of his child in the head as their son sat between them
Timothy Scott Hendricks had only been out of jail a month when he took a pistol, pointed it girlfriend Michelle Marie Ploetz's head, and pulled the trigger with the couple's infant son sitting in a car seat between them. The details of that … At the …
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Macomb County leads state in fatal heroin overdoses
Heroin and opiate prescription drug abuse has skyrocketed in the county in recent years, giving Macomb the dubious distinction of leading the state in fatal heroin overdoses over a three-year period. Heroin began … Sheriff Anthony Wickersham said at …
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Speakers Share Their Journeys of a Life Impacted by Addiction

Speakers share their journeys of a life impacted by addiction
“As far as I'm concern, a drug is a drug is a drug, so alcohol is just as bad as heroin to me,” Libby said. Libby said when he was prescribed … The moment Libby said he realized he was a full blown addict was the morning he woke up feeling sick …
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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.

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.
Prisoner found dead in cellWFMZ Allentown
Coroner: Woman's death in Philly-area prison due to heart attack during heroin The Republic
Coroner: Bucks County prison death due to heart attackThe Reporter

all 46 news articles »