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America's Heroin Epidemic: Where to Find Help
'Downhill Spiral': America's Heroin Epidemic. Nightly News. The US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration provides a toll-free and confidential hotline 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, providing assistance in English and Spanish for …
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Hometown News Calendar for Week of Apr 27, 2014
If someone in your life is struggling with addiction or abuse of chemicals you may gain a better understanding of the addiction process; how it develops, progresses, and what those around the impacted individual can do to assist in dealing with this …
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The Heroin Highway on Long Island
Last year I wrote about Long Island's continuing battle with prescription drug abuse and the “I-STOP” law we passed to create a statewide, real-time prescription tracking database. The good news is these efforts worked. There's been a dramatic decrease …
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BioCorRx gears up for battle vs. drug addiction epidemic
The National Institute on Drug Abuse estimated that drug addiction costs more than $ 600 billion each year in damages, health care, treatment and prevention. Aside from the staggering cost, drug addiction also has emotional cost to the drug dependent …
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BioCorRx Treatment: A Boon to Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is an epidemic that has afflicted many millions of people across the globe. In the United States, more than 24 million people above 12 years old are suffering from this malaise, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services …
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County officials praise heroin addiction program – The Rock River Times

The Rock River Times

County officials praise heroin addiction program The Rock River Times A pilot program that uses medication to address heroin and other opiate addiction is showing promising results for defendants in the Winnebago County Adult Drug Court program, according to court officials. The program helps participants avoid relapse, … and more »

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Putting Heroin Users in Jail Won’t Help Louisiana’s Crime Rate – Truth-Out

Putting Heroin Users in Jail Won't Help Louisiana's Crime Rate Truth-Out Louisiana – and our nation – has seen a surge in heroin crime. According to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, heroin use has climbed steadily since 2007. Law enforcement officials across the nation are reporting an … and more »

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Bain Capital Has Seen the Economy’s Future, and It Is Heroin Addicts – Gawker    Read more...

Lawmakers and families touched by heroin addiction hold forum – News 10NBC

Lawmakers and families touched by heroin addiction hold forum News 10NBC Heroin abuse is being called an epidemic and something all parents need to be aware of. On Tuesday, families who have been personally touched by heroin addiction joined law enforcement and state lawmakers for a forum. The goal of the forum was to …

Heroin Addiction – Google News

Putting Heroin Users in Jail Won’t Help Louisiana’s Crime Rate – Truth-Out

Putting Heroin Users in Jail Won't Help Louisiana's Crime Rate Truth-Out 2014.0416Eisen (Image: Young woman and syringe with heroin on table via Shutterstock)Louisiana – and our nation – has seen a surge in heroin crime. According to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, heroin use has … and more »

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East End heroin task force to combat heroin addiction announced – Riverhead LOCAL    Read more...

Hope After All
Based on his previous arrests, a previous unsuccessful attempt to complete drug court in 2008 and his relapses, expectations were low. “They didn't think I was going to make it,” he said, … Horizon Health Services, for example, has detox facilities …
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Drug company, doctors provide opiate addicts with narcotic
… Reckitt Bensicker created Suboxone as an opioid substitute to treat people addicted to heroin and other opiates. According to Suboxone's website, the treatment process entails short-term use of the drug to curb withdrawal symptoms along with …
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Heroin has 'corrosive effect' in New Hampshire
The upsurge, partly a byproduct of restrictions on prescription pills, has had pervasive effects in New Hampshire, where at least 69 people died last year from heroin overdoses, up from 16 in 2008 and fewer than 10 a little more than a decade ago. In …
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United exiting Concourse D; county funding threatened; call to impeach judge …
Kyle Wirtz shared his story of heroin addiction at a town hall in Solon examining the heroin epidemic's effects on the suburbs. Cory Shaffer, Northeast Ohio Media Group. Heroin addiction, need for mental health services often intertwined. A Cleveland …
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