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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

Fighting heroin addiction / Treatment beds needed – Press of Atlantic City

Fighting heroin addiction / Treatment beds needed
Press of Atlantic City
Because heroin detox is not considered a life-threatening health issue (tell that to an addict or his family), many insurers refuse to pay for full treatment. Pennsylvania requires health insurers to provide coverage for treatment services considered

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Heroin Detox – Google News

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.

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Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Crimea Heroin Addicts Deprived Of Methadone After Russia Annexation – Business Insider

Bain Capital Sees Opportunity in Methadone Clinics – Boston Globe

Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics – Boston Globe


Boston Globe

Bain Capital sees opportunity in methadone clinics
Boston Globe
Clinics like this one on Topeka Street in Boston can be lifesavers for addicts trying to kick heroin or other opiates. Reports of heroin overdoses and deaths are on the rise as cheap and potent versions of the drug — sometimes laced with the pain

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Heroin Addiction – Google News

Task force on heroin addiction to meet here – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Task force on heroin addiction to meet here
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
A legislative task force is continuing its review of ways to address the rise in heroin and opioid abuse. The group is scheduled to hold a forum Tuesday at the Monroe County Office Building in Rochester. It's the second of 12 such events planned

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Heroin Addiction – Google News

Inmate Deaths Raise Questions About Jail Detox Procedures – Bucks County Courier Times

Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures – Bucks County Courier Times

Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures
Bucks County Courier Times
Among 245 U.S. jails that responded to a 2005 survey on access and management of opiate dependency among inmates more than half reported they routinely assessed individuals for opiate dependency, but many failed to use recommended opiate detox …

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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

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.

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Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Crimea Heroin Addicts Deprived Of Methadone After Russia Annexation – Business Insider

'We Lost the War in Afghanistan and It Broke My Heart': Graeme Smith

'We lost the war in Afghanistan and it broke my heart': Graeme Smith
The years when our armies pounded their way into the south will be remembered for heights of violence that exceeded the gruesome body count of the Taliban wars in the 1990s.' By GRAEME SMITH | Published: … Now the foreign troops are withdrawing. We …
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