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Heroin Epidemic Exposes Deficiencies in Care System – Boston Globe
Heroin epidemic exposes deficiencies in care system – Boston Globe
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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 … |
Help wanted: Personal tales show few detox options for local heroin addicts – Palladium-Item
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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 … |
For Heroin Treatment, Testing A New Drug And ‘Peddling Hope’ – WBUR
Heroin Epidemic Exposes Deficiencies in Care System – Boston Globe
Heroin epidemic exposes deficiencies in care system – Boston Globe
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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 … |
For Heroin Treatment, Testing A New Drug And ‘Peddling Hope’ – WBUR
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For Heroin Treatment, Testing A New Drug And 'Peddling Hope'
WBUR For years, the jail's medical director, Steve Descoteaux, and his team would help inmates detox, get health insurance and counseling, connect them to a recovery program, and set up a treatment appointment for the day of their release. “Just about all … |
Inmate deaths raise questions about jail detox procedures – The Intelligencer
In Durham, One Woman's Struggle With Heroin Addiction
In Durham, one woman's struggle with heroin addiction
Elizabeth used heroin for the first time when she was 18 after she found it difficult to cope with her autistic son, of whom she says she lost custody because of her addiction. Now, she struggles with a $ 120-a-day habit. She says a $ 60 package contains …
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Peaches Geldof: Celebrity whose life was ultimately scarred by a tragedy-laced …
Three years later Paula Yates herself was dead of a heroin overdose. The daisy-chain of tragedy in which Peaches Geldof found herself enmeshed ensured that she was, even before she turned 12, projected firmly into the public eye. It was a spotlight …
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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – ABC News
Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – ABC News
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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment
ABC News The doctors shook their heads: Heroin withdrawal is not life-threatening, they said, and we can't admit you. Doctors gave him an IV flush to clean out his system, and sent him home. Marchese and his sister stayed up all night calling inpatient … Heroin users seeking treatment may hit insurance barriers |
Heroin Withdrawal – Google News
Fast facts about some obstacles to heroin sobriety – U-T San Diego
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Fast facts about some obstacles to heroin sobriety
U-T San Diego She was constantly told she didn't meet the “criteria” for treatment centers. She even got turned away from emergency rooms because doctors say alcohol withdrawal is life threatening, but heroin withdrawal is not. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)The Associated Press. |
Heroin Users Seeking Treatment May Hit Insurance Barriers – Boston Globe
Heroin users seeking treatment may hit insurance barriers – Boston Globe
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Heroin users seeking treatment may hit insurance barriers
Boston Globe Advocates say they are not, partly because the insurance industry has not come to grips with the dangers of heroin withdrawal and its aftermath. It is true that, unlike withdrawal from dependencies on alcohol or benzodiazepines like Xanax, heroin … Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment Fast facts about some obstacles to heroin sobriety |
Heroin Withdrawal – Google News
Heroin addicts face numerous barriers to treatment – Bennington Banner
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Heroin addicts face numerous barriers to treatment
Bennington Banner The doctors shook their heads: Heroin withdrawal is not life-threatening, they said, and we can't admit you. Doctors gave him an IV flush to clean out his system, and sent him home. Marchese and his sister stayed up all night calling inpatient … |
Report: More People Seeking Help for Heroin Addiction – News 13 Orlando
Report: More people seeking help for heroin addiction – News 13 Orlando
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Report: More people seeking help for heroin addiction
News 13 Orlando The Center for Drug Free Living reports that heroin use is on the rise and they want the community to be aware. They said the problem that is killing more people in Central Florida and speaks with a former addict. Thirty-nine-year-old Rob Liese said … |
Heroin Addiction – Google News
Ohio panel recommends steps to battle heroin abuse – The Review
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Ohio panel recommends steps to battle heroin abuse
The Review AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Treating heroin use as a public health threat and educating people about its dangers are among the recommendations of a panel in northeast Ohio. A daylong summit in November on the heroin epidemic in the region led to the … |