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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 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

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
Heroin epidemic younger, whiterToledo Blade

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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

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
Heroin epidemic younger, whiterToledo Blade

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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

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – the Journal News / Lohud.com

Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment – The Journal News / Lohud.com

Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
The Journal News / Lohud.com
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

Heroin Epidemic Exposes Deficiencies in Care System – Boston Globe

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

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

Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures – The Intelligencer

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – the Journal News / Lohud.com

Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment – The Journal News / Lohud.com

Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
The Journal News / Lohud.com
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.

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