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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.
Prisoner found dead in cellWFMZ Allentown
Coroner: Bucks County prison death due to heart attackThe Reporter
Coroner: Woman's death in Philly-area prison due to heart attack during heroin Daily Journal

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FDA Approves at-Home Heroin Overdose Antidote

FDA Approves At-Home Heroin Overdose Antidote
Friends and family will be able to take the first step to save a loved one from an overdose of heroin or powerful painkillers called opioids. … Called Evzio, the device contains naloxone, a long-used antidote for overdoses that is usually …
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Bills passed in last session as Senate looks ahead to elections
Multiple other bills also passed, including bills providing cannabis oil treatment to children with seizures, limiting drone usage in the state and increasing funding for rural heroin addiction treatment. However, other bills the Legislature did not …
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An addict learns it's not 'impossible' to stay clean
Her large dark eyes tear up when Jeanette Romero talks about how her late grandpa wanted her to kick her almost decade-long heroin habit. … Romero is part of an unfolding story as local law enforcement agencies and the legal community get behind …
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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

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.
Coroner: Bucks inmate died of heart failure during heroin withdrawThe Intelligencer

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Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

St. Louis settles lawsuit over inmate’s heroin withdrawal death – STLtoday.com

St. Louis settles lawsuit over inmate's heroin withdrawal death
STLtoday.com
ST. LOUIS • The City of St. Louis this week settled a lawsuit that alleged that medical negligence and heroin withdrawal caused the death of a jail inmate. Isaac Bennett Jr. was jailed on July 23, 2007, and told a nurse that he was a heroin addict who

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For Heroin Addicts, There's Help and Hope

For heroin addicts, there's help and hope
Home for the summer, Chambers commuted daily from Mantua, N.J., to Camden, N.J., to feed what quickly became a heroin habit. “It made all my troubles … Detox is unpleasant at best; relapse is frequent, although certainly not inevitable. “The biggest …
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Add spiritual transformation to fight against drugs
Substance abuse in New Jersey has become an epidemic. In 2012, for example, heroin and opiate treatment admissions exceeded 33,000 people, according to State Department of Human Services statistics. Unfortunately, the number of people requiring …
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Here's a Look Back at a Feature I Did in Which I Chronicled One Woman's

Here's a look back at a feature I did in which I chronicled one woman's
She claims to have kicked her heroin habit and is on a methadone program. She steals, she said, to supplement her $ 946 monthly income assistance cheque, $ 425 of which goes to rent. "I'd like to get some better housing–you should see the dive I live in …
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If it is 'natural', is it necessarily good for you to eat?
Usually our bodies can detoxify small amounts of potentially toxic compounds, but some are very potent indeed. On the other hand, even 'good' … I am thinking of caffeine, nicotine (one of the most poisonous substances known), alcohol, kava, cocaine …
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Heroin Addiction Apparent Motive in Stockbridge Bank Robbery – WNYT

Heroin addiction apparent motive in Stockbridge bank robbery – WNYT


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Heroin addiction apparent motive in Stockbridge bank robbery
WNYT
STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – A bank robbery in Stockbridge this week appears to be the first in the Berkshire County town in almost 80 years, and may be just the second ever. Monday's robbery at Lee Bank also came just weeks after the town's new police 
Lee Bank robbery suspect held in NY; heroin habit citedBerkshire Eagle
Stockbridge bank robbery was town's 1st in decadesBoston.com
Suspect In Western Mass. Bank Robbery Caught In NYWAMC

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Heroin Addiction – Google News