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Pain Meds Overdose Deaths Decrease
The younger age group of 18-29 contained the primary users of opiates, but with the stricter guidelines made for handing out prescriptions, they can't as easily access parents' or others' medications in the medicine cabinet. With the decrease in …
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Mom of San Juan Man who Died in Detox Home Sues for Wrongful Death
Redmer turned to alcohol as a way to self-medicate a long-standing struggle with depression, the lawsuit says. He was ready to finally break free. … But even before then, staffers provided Jason with a number of strong anti-withdrawal medications …
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POLICE: Six drug dealers arrested in Greentree Lane narcotics bust
According to an arrest report, police found a "large quantity" of heroin, marijuana and Xanax packaged for sale, along with digital scales and other materials police said were to be used in the narcotics trade. Police arrested 21-year-old Carissa Dawn …
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Jared Padalecki Says Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death Was 'Stupid' And …
He was reportedly found with a needle in his arm and empty glassine-type bags, typically used to hold heroin. After news of the Oscar winner's … Last May, Hoffman checked into a drug detox facility for 10 days after falling off the wagon. A year …
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Heroin: A Deadly Drug
Heroin: A Deadly Drug. Phillip Seymour Hoffman's tragic death is shedding light on heroin, and the addictive nature of this drug. HuffPost's Zach Carter finds out why this drug is so easy to abuse and what prescriptions are available to prevent deadly …
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The Third Man: William S. Burroughs At One Hundred
He had his literary flaws of course but he had the good manners to make even his failures and minor works interesting (his dream journal My Education, his feline The Cat Inside and his collaboration with Kerouac And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their …
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When calling 911 can land you in jail
As Philip Seymour Hoffman's friends, family and admirers come to terms with his tragic and untimely death and fentanyl-laced heroin kills addicts across the Northeast, the media have responded to the news in the best way it knows how: with a seemingly …
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Skyrocketing heroin use in Central Oregon
“It's just a matter of time before somebody offers you the heroin or you know where you can get it,” said Barrett Hamilton, a recovery mentor at Best Care Treatment Centers in Redmond. “And even though you … It makes for a hellish withdrawal …
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Voices: 'Heroin abuse looks like my dad'
Heroin kills. The drug devastates the body, erodes the mind, eats at the teeth and leaves ugly track marks. But the physical toll on the individual does not compare with the emotional vacuum of a person the drug creates. Shooting up becomes their world …
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A 'blockade' for opiates: Vivitrol offers hope for treatment
For the past several months, a Dane County drug treatment facility has been trying to help opiate-addicted men and women coming out of jail with a new medication that could boost recovery chances by more than 50 percent. Called Vivitrol, the monthly …
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Could Drug-Replacement Therapy Have Saved Philip Seymour…
In May of 2013—perhaps realizing the disease was back in force—Hoffman checked himself into a detox facility for ten days, once again resetting his tolerance to zero. His brain was at … Which is why long-term opiate-replacement therapy—that is …
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