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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

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

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

Correction: Heroin Deaths-Ohio Story

Correction: Heroin Deaths-Ohio story
Heroin addiction has been increasing as prescription painkiller abusers turn to the cheaper and more readily available drug. "What we're seeing is a significant number of people moving to a more acute phase of their addiction disorder," said Orman Hall …
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Record number of Ohioans die from heroin overdoses
Heroin addiction has been increasing as prescription painkiller abusers turn to the cheaper and more readily available drug. “What we're … down on heroin dealers. U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach in Cleveland has labeled the problem a “public health …
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Cannabis opponents call for restrictions on edibles after two deaths
On Jan 1 Colorado became the first US state to open shops licensed to sell the drug for recreational use to anyone over 21. Supporters say it has been … This week Richard Kirk shot dead his wife Kristine in their middle class suburban Denver home …
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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

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

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

Three People Linked in Death by Heroin, a Longtime DC Drug Dealer and an … – Washington Post

Three people linked in death by heroin, a longtime DC drug dealer and an … – Washington Post


Washington Post

Three people linked in death by heroin, a longtime DC drug dealer and an
Washington Post
Strangers to one another in life, they shared an addiction to heroin, fueled by the same D.C. drug dealer. And one by one, they died using a deadly substance that authorities say has permeated the East Coast, leaving a trail of grieving family members.
Heroin dealer gets 35 years in prison after three customers dieWJLA

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Heroin Addiction – Google News

Roseville woman trying to overcome 10-year heroin addiction – The Macomb Daily

Roseville woman trying to overcome 10-year heroin addiction
The Macomb Daily
Despite a hospital visit and a couple of other overdoses, she continued to use heroin. She couldn't resist the good feeling the drug gave her. In two years, she progressed from snorting powder heroin to injecting liquid heroin with a needle. It

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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

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

Officials gather in Utica to discuss local heroin problem – The Rome Observer

Officials gather in Utica to discuss local heroin problem
The Rome Observer
She urged the senators to bring more education to the area and get a local detox, as most addicts who want to go to a detoxification facility have to travel to Syracuse. “It is very common that heroin is now a major factor, and the availability of the

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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

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

‘He’s gone forever’: A Somerville family looks back on years of addiction – Wicked Local Sandwich

'He's gone forever': A Somerville family looks back on years of addiction
Wicked Local Sandwich
At least a half-dozen Somerville residents have suffered fatal heroin overdoses between Jan. 1 and April 15. Most were between the ages of 24 and 31, grew up in the same neighborhoods, went to the same schools and played on the same sports teams.

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