Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment Across US
Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment across US
The doctors shook their heads: Heroin withdrawal is not life-threatening, they said, and we can't admit you. … Advocates say they are not, partly because the insurance industry has not come to grips with the dangers of heroin withdrawal and its …
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Heroin use taking a toll on Pennsylvania
Heroin's reputation in the 1970s was "a really hard-core, dangerous street drug, a killer drug, but there's a whole generation who didn't grow up with that kind of experience with heroin," said New York City Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan …
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Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures
An autopsy found she had a fatal cardiac arrest during detox, making her the second inmate to die during opiate detoxification at the jail in less than six months. In October, Philadelphia resident Valene Karaharisis, 29, was going through heroin detox …
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