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Help Wanted: Personal Tales Show Few Detox Options for Local Heroin Addicts – Palladium-Item

Help wanted: Personal tales show few detox options for local heroin addicts – Palladium-Item

Help wanted: Personal tales show few detox options for local heroin addicts
Palladium-Item
Bobbie Jo Rains, 28, left, and roommate Kayla Pauly, 24, at Cross Road Christian Recovery Center for Women. Rains is putting her life back together after heroin addiction and time in prison for crimes she committed. / Robert Sullivan/Palladium-Item …

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Heroin Detox – Google News

Heroin ‘filled the hole’: For kid from suburbs, pot was first stop on road to … – Omaha World-Herald

Heroin 'filled the hole': For kid from suburbs, pot was first stop on road to
Omaha World-Herald
But after six months, he said, he realized he'd replaced one addiction with another, so he entered a detox program. He has been sober since Oct. 12. Lewis attends Narcotics Anonymous meetings and group therapy and has begun speaking about his heroin …
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Risks of Popular Anxiety Drugs Often Overshadowed – New Hampshire Public Radio

Risks Of Popular Anxiety Drugs Often Overshadowed – New Hampshire Public Radio

Risks Of Popular Anxiety Drugs Often Overshadowed
New Hampshire Public Radio
He says when he first took the job 15 years ago, about 75 percent of the detox patients were alcoholics, and the rest were drug addicts. Now, he says, 90 percent of them are drug addicts whose drugs of choice often include the combined use of opiates

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Opiate Detox – Google News

Kentuckiana faces rising problem of drug abuse and addiction – IU Southeast Horizon

Kentuckiana faces rising problem of drug abuse and addiction
IU Southeast Horizon
The program is not specifically designed to treat heroin addiction, but Highbaugh said that 93 percent of the people attending were there for some form of detox treatment for heroin. She said they don't want anything to come in between people and

Opiate Detox – Google News

Addiction Treatment Specialists Say State Funding Is Too Low

Addiction treatment specialists say state funding is too low
SPRINGFIELD | While lawmakers look for solutions to Illinois’ heroin problem, addiction specialists say the state isn’t providing them with enough funding.
Heroin Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results

Mother who lost son to heroin speaks out
A mother who lost her son to heroin addiction is sharing his story in the hopes of preventing more tragic deaths. Diane Shepler spoke Tuesday night at the BCIU building in Muhlenberg Township. Her son Tyler died in December of 2012. Police say he stole pants from the Walmart in Muhlenberg Township and was hit by a car while fleeing the scene. Tyler was in three rehab facilities over the course …
Heroin Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results

Pop Is the Drug: 13 Songs About Addiction

Pop Is The Drug: 13 Songs About Addiction
From heroin, to pain pills. From nail-biting, to shopping, and even obsessions with addicts themselves. It seems that addictions are as varied as the people who succumb to them, and that for every one of them, there is a songwriter who feels their pain …
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Laid-off banker sentenced to prison for robbing bank
Runge asked the judge for treatment instead of prison because he said realized addiction's powerful hold on him. "Seventy-five percent of my docket is drug-related," Marsh said. "It's the same song but a different singer." Instead, she gave him a …
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Help Wanted: Personal Tales Show Few Detox Options for Local Heroin Addicts – Palladium-Item

Help wanted: Personal tales show few detox options for local heroin addicts – Palladium-Item

Help wanted: Personal tales show few detox options for local heroin addicts
Palladium-Item
Bobbie Jo Rains, 28, left, and roommate Kayla Pauly, 24, at Cross Road Christian Recovery Center for Women. Rains is putting her life back together after heroin addiction and time in prison for crimes she committed. / Robert Sullivan/Palladium-Item …

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Heroin Detox – Google News

Heroin ‘filled the hole’: For kid from suburbs, pot was first stop on road to … – Omaha World-Herald

Heroin 'filled the hole': For kid from suburbs, pot was first stop on road to
Omaha World-Herald
But after six months, he said, he realized he'd replaced one addiction with another, so he entered a detox program. He has been sober since Oct. 12. Lewis attends Narcotics Anonymous meetings and group therapy and has begun speaking about his heroin …
Treatment for addicts must be availableStandard Speaker

all 9 news articles »

Kentuckiana Faces Rising Problem of Drug Abuse and Addiction – IU Southeast Horizon

Kentuckiana faces rising problem of drug abuse and addiction – IU Southeast Horizon

Kentuckiana faces rising problem of drug abuse and addiction
IU Southeast Horizon
The program is not specifically designed to treat heroin addiction, but Highbaugh said that 93 percent of the people attending were there for some form of detox treatment for heroin. She said they don't want anything to come in between people and

Opiate Detox – Google News

Risks Of Popular Anxiety Drugs Often Overshadowed – NPR (blog)


NPR (blog)

Risks Of Popular Anxiety Drugs Often Overshadowed
NPR (blog)
He says when he first took the job 15 years ago, about 75 percent of the detox patients were alcoholics, and the rest were drug addicts. Now, he says, 90 percent of them are drug addicts whose drugs of choice often include the combined use of opiates

and more »

Opiate Detox – Google News