Heroin Overdose ‘Cure’ Exists, but Can Users Find It? – NBCNews.com
Heroin Overdose ‘Cure’ Exists, But Can Users Find It? – NBCNews.com
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Heroin Overdose 'Cure' Exists, But Can Users Find It?
NBCNews.com “It's important to be creative and think about where you are going to find high-risk people and engage and empower them,” Walley said noting particular dangers for those coming off of rehabilitation or detox due to lower drug tolerance. Helton, the … |
Outpatient opioid addiction treatment is more available – Albuquerque Journal (subscription)
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Outpatient opioid addiction treatment is more available
Albuquerque Journal (subscription) There is now more hope to tackle the “scourge” of heroin/opiate addiction that Jennifer Weiss relates in telling the painful story of her son's addiction and death. (“Heroin Scourge cuts across cultural and economic barriers” in the Feb. 15 Journal … |
The Condition Many Recovering Addicts and Alcoholics Don't Know About
The Condition Many Recovering Addicts And Alcoholics Don't Know About
For instance, a long-standing question in the opiate treatment field is whether buprenorphine (Suboxone) is a better opiate replacement therapy than methadone, and for how long to give these drugs to addicts post-acute withdrawal. Naltrexone, typically …
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Vt. spends millions on addiction-fighting drug that is diverted for street sale
Buprenorphine is an opioid. It contains just enough of the narcotic so addicts won't experience withdrawal. Bupe also contains a blocker so addicts can't get high on another drug simultaneously. People who take buprenorphine say the psychological …
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Special Report: Vermont spends millions on addiction-fighting drug that is …
Buprenorphine is an opioid. It contains just enough of the narcotic so addicts won't experience withdrawal. Bupe also contains a blocker so addicts can't get high on another drug simultaneously. People who take buprenorphine say the psychological …
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Former Heroin User Says Her Drug Abuse, Like Many Others, Began With Pills
Former heroin user says her drug abuse, like many others, began with pills
Drug treatment counselors at Crossroads say there's been a 20 percent increase in the number of people getting help for heroin addiction. KRDO-TV spoke to a former heroin addict, identified only as "Lisa," who has been clean for eight months. She said the road to heroin addiction began with prescription pills. "I started injecting pills and then I was doing that 6, 7, 8 times a day cause the …
Heroin Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results
Mom shares her story of recovery after heroin addiction
A 31-year-old mother of three, who is a recovering heroin addict doesn't want us to use her name, but she's more than willing to tell her story.
Heroin Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results
Is There Such a Thing as Doing Hard Drugs “in Moderation”?
Question by Got rings this millennium?: Is there such a thing as doing hard drugs “in moderation”?
Proponents for drug legalization say everyone should be allowed to make their own choices as long as others are not harmed. The problem with this is that no one knows what sort of problems this could lead to and simply disregards the sentiments of a majority of the people. One of their main sticking points they mention is the supposed double standard with the legality of alcohol. But the fact of the matter is, alcohol is for the most part consumed leisurely and in moderation by most people. Is there such a thing as a person who does crack or heroin in moderation without developing an addiction?
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Heroin Addicts Who Want Help Likely to Be Denied by Insurers – Elmira Star-Gazette
Heroin addicts who want help likely to be denied by insurers – Elmira Star-Gazette
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Heroin addicts who want help likely to be denied by insurers
Elmira Star-Gazette Demand for treatment is quickly outstripping supply, leaving addicts whose internal clocks revolve around their next fix to wait weeks in some cases for care ranging from scheduling counseling sessions to getting medicine to combat withdrawal. The … |
Heroin Withdrawal – Google News
Bust takes down Heights heroin ring – Seven people are behind bars Friday after a bust that targeted heroin traffickers operating in Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights, and area that’s experienced a…
DAVE PRELOSKY/BUTLER EAGLE
DAVE PRELOSKY/BUTLER EAGLE
The recent death of a Butler County resident is believed to be linked to tainted heroin, but the dangers of the drug far exceed a single bad batch. The county coroner's … Its 12 full-time employees can serve up to 245 patients, which have an average …
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Book Review: 'Call Me Burroughs' by Barry Miles
How well he would have understood present-day Colorado, where legalized marijuana arrived in time to add zest to a recent evening of "No Mercy: Extreme Fighting" at the Colorado Springs Civic Auditorium. How plausible the Internet has made his visions …
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