Recovering Heroin Addict Starting Over — at Age 21
Recovering heroin addict starting over — at age 21
By then, Lewis was a $ 100-a-day addict. Heroin was no longer fun. He needed it to get rid of the sweats and the shakes, the body cramps, the aches in his bones. “I had to use,” he says, “to feel normal, like a regular person.” Lewis was consumed by heroin.
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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment
"We're losing kids every day from it." Of the 23.1 million Americans who … 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 …
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