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Fighting Heroin Addiction / Treatment Beds Needed – Press of Atlantic City

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 epidemic exposes deficiencies in care system – Boston Globe

Heroin epidemic exposes deficiencies in care system
Boston Globe
That includes beds in inpatient detox services, short-term post-detox services, and recovery homes where substance abusers receive long-term treatment designed to help them lead drug-free, independent lives. The Department of Public Health said it

Heroin Detox – Google News

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

At 21, Recovering Heroin Addict Starts Over

At 21, recovering heroin addict starts over
Lewis was consumed by heroin. Every day was the same: Get up sick if he hadn't used in 12 hours. Figure out how to get money. Then drive 35 miles from his suburban home in Aurora to Chicago to score. “My whole existence,” he says, “was just finding …
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THE LETTERS PROJECT: Families dealing with addiction
He purchased pills at parties and eventually from individuals selling prescriptions at school and out of their homes. Throughout the time Chris spent in the public school system, he was educated about drugs and the negative effects they have on peoples …
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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – Sci-Tech Today

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – Sci-Tech Today

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment
Sci-Tech Today
Are heroin addicts getting the treatment they need to successfully beat their habits?Advocates say they are not, partly because the insurance industry has not come to grips with the dangers of heroin withdrawal and its aftermath. Heroin withdrawal does

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Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Heroin users seeking treatment may hit insurance barriers – Boston Globe


Boston Globe

Heroin users seeking treatment may hit insurance barriers
Boston Globe
Advocates say they are not, partly because the insurance industry has not come to grips with the dangers of heroin withdrawal and its aftermath. It is true that, unlike withdrawal from dependencies on alcohol or benzodiazepines like Xanax, heroin

Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Heroin epidemic gives rise to a generation of ‘Suboxone babies’ – Al Jazeera America (blog)

New Drug Policies Applauded

New drug policies applauded
March 29– Lisa Murphy missed Gov. Deval Patrick's Thursday press conference announcing his aggressive plan to throw an arsenal of attention and $ 20 million toward combating opiate addiction. In his announcement Thursday, Patrick promised $ 20 million …
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Opiate overdoses forum in Braintree set for April 3
According to Robyn LaFrance, services coordinator in Sullivan's office, Fowkes will speak about legislation co-sponsored by Lynch that would withdraw the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of the high-dose narcotic painkiller Zohydro. Because …
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Heroin users constantly face risk of overdose, death
Wilmington is a distribution point for the overdose rescue kits. To obtain a kit, call 336-543-8050. The patient isn't breathing. His lips … Not all of those overdoses were related to heroin or opiates. During a heroin overdose, the user's breathing …
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Fighting Heroin Addiction / Treatment Beds Needed – Press of Atlantic City

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

and more »

Heroin Detox – Google News

Heroin epidemic exposes deficiencies in care system – Boston Globe

Heroin epidemic exposes deficiencies in care system
Boston Globe
That includes beds in inpatient detox services, short-term post-detox services, and recovery homes where substance abusers receive long-term treatment designed to help them lead drug-free, independent lives. The Department of Public Health said it

Heroin Detox – Google News

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

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – Sci-Tech Today

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – Sci-Tech Today

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment
Sci-Tech Today
Are heroin addicts getting the treatment they need to successfully beat their habits?Advocates say they are not, partly because the insurance industry has not come to grips with the dangers of heroin withdrawal and its aftermath. Heroin withdrawal does

and more »

Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Heroin epidemic gives rise to a generation of ‘Suboxone babies’ – Al Jazeera America (blog)


Al Jazeera America (blog)

Heroin epidemic gives rise to a generation of 'Suboxone babies'
Al Jazeera America (blog)
And pregnant women on the drug transmit it to the unborn baby in utero. After birth, a percentage of infants suffer from “neonatal abstinence syndrome,” or withdrawal. By her 20th birthday, Coleman was hooked on heroin, and she lived with the addiction

Heroin Withdrawal – Google News