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Heroin Hits Home: More Newborns Beginning Life as Addicts – fox8.com

Heroin Hits Home: More Newborns Beginning Life as Addicts – fox8.com

Heroin Hits Home: More Newborns Beginning Life as Addicts
fox8.com
They cry for many reasons, but some cry because they were born addicted to heroin. “What I know about withdrawal, it is extremely uncomfortable,” said Dr. Deepak Kumar, one of the neonatologists who do the heroic work every day trying to wean these 

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IMPD effort will put heroin antidote into the hands of officers – Indianapolis Star

IMPD effort will put heroin antidote into the hands of officers
Indianapolis Star
Beginning next month, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department is piloting a new program that puts a life-saving heroin and opioid prescription drug antidote in the hands of officers. The drug Naloxone also sends the person into withdrawal

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Former Probation Officer Sues Allegheny County Courts Over Dismissal

Former probation officer sues Allegheny County courts over dismissal
He then had another, similar incident in which he left a store with merchandise in May, resulting in another summons, which was withdrawn, the lawsuit indicated. He was then fired in September. The lawsuit provided a list of court employees, identified …
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Hoffman, Heroin and Terrorism in a Syringe – Waterloo Record

Hoffman, heroin and terrorism in a syringe – Waterloo Record


Voice of America

Hoffman, heroin and terrorism in a syringe
Waterloo Record
But, there is a cruel twist of ironic fate in the drug-addicted Hoffman's recent heroin overdose death. Most of the world's heroin — about 80 percent — is currently produced in the country where the United States has fought its longest war: Afghanistan.
Markos Kounalakis: Afghanistan — War winding down, drug war warming upGulf Today
Philip Seymour Hoffman, heroin and the war in AfghanistanMiamiHerald.com

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What Happens if the Economy Hits Some Rocks? Will the Fed Stop the Taper?

What happens if the economy hits some rocks? Will the Fed stop the taper?
Then comes the difficult process of withdrawing the stimulus. “Tapering”, as its called by economists (and, coincidentally, by heroin addicts). How much damage will be cause? How much pain? Today we have advice about what to expect from someone with …
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Glamor Junkies
I was an admirer of Philip Seymour Hoffman's, but I was not surprised to learn that he had died as the result of a heroin misadventure. … now; you know she's bad news, but it's 2 a.m. and your decision-making timeline currently does not extend to …
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Glamour junkies
At least three young men in the New York suburbs died of heroin overdoses just before Mr. Hoffman's death, western Pennsylvania is full of the stuff, and Vermont claims to be in the midst of a full-on heroin epidemic. … wants the doughnut right now …
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Prescription Painkillers Seen as a Gateway to Heroin – New York Times

Prescription Painkillers Seen as a Gateway to Heroin – New York Times


Washington Post

Prescription Painkillers Seen as a Gateway to Heroin
New York Times
“The old-school user, pre-1990s, mostly used just heroin, and if there was none around, went through withdrawal,” said Stephen E. Lankenau, a sociologist at Drexel University who has surveyed young addicts. Today, he said, “users switch back and forth, 
Today's Heroin Problem Linked to Prescription PainkillersThe Epoch Times
Philip Seymour Hoffman's death points to broader opioid drug epidemicWashington Post
When calling 911 can land you in jailAl Jazeera America
TIME (blog) –NYU Local
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Former heroin addict to relatives of addicts: Cut them off – The Times-Picayune

Former heroin addict to relatives of addicts: Cut them off
The Times-Picayune
If a user goes through withdrawal, which is uncomfortable but not deadly, the body will reset overtime, setting the tolerance back to zero, he said. If someone shoots up again, they might take the dose they remember using last, resulting in a “high

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Prescription Painkillers Seen as a Gateway to Heroin – malaysiandigest.com

Prescription Painkillers Seen As A Gateway To Heroin – malaysiandigest.com

Prescription Painkillers Seen As A Gateway To Heroin
malaysiandigest.com
“The old-school user, pre-1990s, mostly used just heroin, and if there was none around, went through withdrawal,” said Stephen E. Lankenau, a sociologist at Drexel University who has surveyed young addicts. Today, he said, “users switch back and forth, 

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Junky and William Burroughs’ oblique moral vision – The Guardian (blog)


The Guardian (blog)

Junky and William Burroughs' oblique moral vision
The Guardian (blog)
Personally, I read plenty of compulsion in this vivid catalogue of withdrawal and fix, scores and sales. It's a head-first and fully immersed plunge into the junk underworld, the people in it, the techniques of obtaining and But perhaps we can take

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