'Out of Options': Veterans With PTSD Hit Pot Underground
'Out of Options': Veterans with PTSD hit pot underground
And in 12 states where the drug is legal but prohibited for PTSD, many are lying to doctors that they need medical weed for allowable conditions like chronic pain, advocates assert. Meantime, vast numbers of other veterans can't find it, can't afford …
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Event sheds light on area's heroin problem
BURGETTSTOWN State Rep. Jesse White, D-Cecil Township, Pa., teamed up with the Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane's Office to host Thursday's Community Conversation on Heroin Abuse. About 40 community members including local … that there …
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India: Jostling for Geopolitical Control in Afghanistan
In a video recording of a 2011 speech revealed last year by investigative news website Washington Free Beacon, now US defence secretary Chuck Hagel said: 'India for some time has always used Afghanistan as a second front, and India has over the years …
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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
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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 … |
Novel Nonopioid Approach Promising for Opioid Dependence – Medscape
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Novel Nonopioid Approach Promising for Opioid Dependence
Medscape ORLANDO, Florida ? A novel approach to opioid detoxification that does not involve the use of opioids may be superior to a protocol that includes buprenorphine. The results of a new study show that the combination of tizanidine (Zanaflex, Acorda … |
Louisville to pay 0K to dead inmate’s family – The Courier-Journal
'We'Re All Paying:' Heroin Spreads Misery in US
'We're all paying:' Heroin spreads misery in US
It didn't take long for Douglas to realize that the man, fresh out of treatment, was his second heroin overdose that day. "You just drive away and go, 'Well, here we go again,'" says the veteran cop. In Butler County, Ohio, heroin overdose calls are so …
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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – NPR
Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment – NPR
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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. |
Heroin Withdrawal – Google News
Coroner: Bucks inmate died of heart failure during heroin withdrawal – Bucks County Courier Times
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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 cell Coroner: Woman's death in Philly-area prison due to heart attack during heroin … Coroner: Bucks County prison death due to heart attack |
Teen Shot Mother of His Child in the Head as Their Son Sat Between Them
Teen shot mother of his child in the head as their son sat between them
Timothy Scott Hendricks had only been out of jail a month when he took a pistol, pointed it girlfriend Michelle Marie Ploetz's head, and pulled the trigger with the couple's infant son sitting in a car seat between them. The details of that … At the …
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Macomb County leads state in fatal heroin overdoses
Heroin and opiate prescription drug abuse has skyrocketed in the county in recent years, giving Macomb the dubious distinction of leading the state in fatal heroin overdoses over a three-year period. Heroin began … Sheriff Anthony Wickersham said at …
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Is Obesity Justifiable?
Question by Nicholas: Is obesity justifiable?
Granted there are individuals that have serious medical conditions that impede to a normal loss of weight, as a nation and society we cherish the ‘extra baggage’ as a realistic expectation for human development. There are an overwhelming number of critically obese people (and I speak of 300+ lbs here) and I feel it is sad and melancholy experience from multiple perspectives.
On one hand, we have the argument that – “They aren’t hurting anybody. Leave them be.”
On the other hand, the contrast to this is – “They are naturally that way due to health conditions.”
I have to disagree with both of these arguments, as they are indirectly affecting a LOT when you back up the chain. Obviously one person isn’t having a dramatic effect, but en masse and on a national scale it’s been stated that obesity in our country “has the highest preventable cause of death and surmounts to a massive drain upon public resources for health care and public EBT assistance.”