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Heroin Users Seeking Treatment May Hit Insurance Barriers – Boston Globe

Heroin users seeking treatment may hit insurance barriers – Boston Globe


Boston Globe

Heroin users seeking treatment may hit insurance barriers
Boston Globe
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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Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug … – TheDay.com

Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug
TheDay.com
A 20-bed detox facility on Coit Street in New London, run by Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Inc., is in the midst of a $ 900,000 renovation in part to accommodate medical staff for patients suffering the painful effects of

Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Heroin Addiction: The Long Road to Sobriety

Heroin addiction: The long road to sobriety
Steve did his first line of cocaine when he was 15 and working as a fisherman in Anacortes. It made him feel like Superman.
Heroin Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results

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Deadly Addiction: Heroin Use, a Tragic Wrong Turn for Prescription Drug … – TheDay.com

Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug … – TheDay.com

Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug
TheDay.com
Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug abusers, on the rise in region. By Greg Smith and Izaskun E. Larrañeta …. Local detox facilities are a starting point for long-term treatment for many. A 20-bed detox facility on

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Heroin Detox – Google News

Recovery advocate: ‘We don’t have a cure for addiction’ – Worcester Telegram

Recovery advocate: 'We don't have a cure for addiction'
Worcester Telegram
And they're creeping into the city and buying heroin." … "You get a case manager that helps you navigate welfare, Social Security or housing applications or job applications, or admitting into detox or a halfway house — they're called recovery homes

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Fairfax Mother of Young Heroin Addict: ‘There Were Clues. but We Had No Clue.’ – Washington Post

Fairfax mother of young heroin addict: ‘There were clues. But we had no clue.’ – Washington Post

Fairfax mother of young heroin addict: 'There were clues. But we had no clue.'
Washington Post
The sentencing last week of a D.C. heroin dealer whose drugs killed three other young adults in Fairfax has cast a harsh light on the problem of addiction in Washington's suburbs. Even in this affluent, well-educated area, young people are jeopardizing

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More Somerville families opening up about heroin addiction – Wicked Local Northborough

More Somerville families opening up about heroin addiction
Wicked Local Northborough
The names change but the story is the same. For Vicky Westcott, it's a story that more people need to hear. Only close family friends knew about her son Tommy's problem while he was alive, but nowadays when people ask what happened to him, she tells …

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More Somerville Families Opening Up About Heroin Addiction – Wicked Local Littleton

More Somerville families opening up about heroin addiction – Wicked Local Littleton

More Somerville families opening up about heroin addiction
Wicked Local Littleton
The names change but the story is the same. For Vicky Westcott, it's a story that more people need to hear. Only close family friends knew about her son Tommy's problem while he was alive, but nowadays when people ask what happened to him, she tells …

Heroin Detox – Google News

State learns more in fight against heroin epidemic at panel of legislators in … – WatertownDailyTimes.com


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State learns more in fight against heroin epidemic at panel of legislators in
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AMANDA MORRISON • WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES. Chelsea Mulcahy tears up while giving a testimony about the life of her boyfriend, who struggled with heroin addiction until his death, during the New York State Senate Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction
State learns more in the fight against heroinInsurance News Net (press release)

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Overdose Victim: Make Narcan Available to All Who Need It

Overdose Victim: Make Narcan Available To All Who Need It
– Monroe News photo by KIM BRENT Mike McKeone struggled with a heroin addiction for 3 years. When he overdosed, it was Narcan that saved his life. Narcan is carried by firefighter/paramedics as well as ambulance paramedics and blocks opiates from being absorbed, thereby stopping an overdose.
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