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Locking Up Detroit Drug Dealers Won't Stop Drug Abuse, Officials Say

Locking up Detroit drug dealers won't stop drug abuse, officials say
But Mark Hines, who assists addicts in the Trumbull County jail as a volunteer for the Warren nonprofit Hope House and Youngstown faith-based Ohio Valley Teen Challenge, says the problem with Trumbull County drug addiction runs deeper than just an …
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Save Lives by Educating on Dangers of Heroin: Your Say – USA TODAY

Save lives by educating on dangers of heroin: Your Say – USA TODAY

Save lives by educating on dangers of heroin: Your Say
USA TODAY
Let's put medicine where judgment and punishment have failed. — Rapid Opiate Detox. While we concern ourselves with illegal heroin dealers, our legal heroin dealer, Big Pharma, is pushing its synthetic heroin daily, and no one has anything to say

Opiate Detox – Google News

Fairfax mother of young heroin addict: ‘There were clues. But we had no clue.’ – Washington Post

Fairfax mother of young heroin addict: 'There were clues. But we had no clue.'
Washington Post
A few nights later, Brennan was in a detox program in Chantilly. And Walker, 27, was dead. He'd taken one last hit, in a bathroom of his family's home in Springfield, and collapsed with the needle still in his arm. The sentencing last week of a D.C

How Long Island Is Losing Its War on Heroin

How Long Island is Losing its War on Heroin
Shanna Lintz was strung-out and living in a rented Hyundai Sonata with her boyfriend when the couple ran out of money and decided to snatch a woman's purse in Levittown so they could buy heroin. Police quickly apprehended the duo after the fall 2010 …
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Drug program is a lifesaver
The program allowed them to stabilise their lives, detox from their opiate substitute drug, buprenorphine, successfully and then enter the Buttery's abstinence-based treatment programs. "This has been a magic program for me, I am now a normal new shiny …
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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: Bucks County prison death due to heart attackThe Reporter
Coroner: Woman's death in Philly-area prison due to heart attack during heroin The Tribune

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Fairfax Mother of Young Heroin Addict: ‘There Were Clues. but We Had No Clue.’ – Washington Post

Fairfax mother of young heroin addict: ‘There were clues. But we had no clue.’ – Washington Post

Fairfax mother of young heroin addict: 'There were clues. But we had no clue.'
Washington Post
The sentencing last week of a D.C. heroin dealer whose drugs killed three other young adults in Fairfax has cast a harsh light on the problem of addiction in Washington's suburbs. Even in this affluent, well-educated area, young people are jeopardizing

Heroin Addiction – Google News

How a Promising Ivy League Student Ended Up a Heroin Addict and Convicted … – PolicyMic


PolicyMic

How a Promising Ivy League Student Ended Up a Heroin Addict and Convicted
PolicyMic
Thus opens the first chapter of Keri Blakinger's manuscript of her book IV League — a title, purposely misspelled, that alludes to her drug use during her time at Cornell University from 2007-2010. She wrote the book, which she finished in January

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Fighting Heroin Addiction / Treatment Beds Needed

Fighting heroin addiction / Treatment beds needed
Chris Christie has proposed expanding his Drug Court program, which sends addicts to treatment rather than jail. His budget proposal for next year includes an additional $ 4.5 million for the program, which would expand treatment to approximately 1,000 …
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Butler OH Alcohol Drug Rehab Launches Updated Intervention Program
Butler OH Alcohol Drug Rehab is launching an updated intervention program for individuals dealing with drug addiction in Butler and surrounding cities. Keeping up a false face that life is going well while indulging in drugs of different shapes and …
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