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Is heroin addiction as close as your medicine cabinet? – 6abc.com

Is heroin addiction as close as your medicine cabinet? 6abc.com December 19, 2013 (WPVI) — An Action News investigation uncovers an alarming revelation about opiate addiction, and the connection between heroin use and prescriptions medications many of us use every day. The scourge of heroin continues to spread …

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Program targets heroin abuse – Charlotte Observer

Program targets heroin abuse Charlotte Observer In June, King helped launch a pilot program in the South Division to target heroin use. The program recently expanded to include the entire county. “It's not just targeting offenders and trying to arrest them,” said Wilson. “We're working with …

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Bill aims to boost treatment for heroin addicts, prison time for dealers – Lexington Herald Leader    Read more...

Is heroin addiction as close as your medicine cabinet?
An Action News investigation uncovers an alarming revelation about opiate addiction, and the connection between heroin use and prescriptions medications many of us use every day.
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B.C. patients still waiting for controversial prescription heroin
The doctors for a Group of 21 addicts granted special prescriptions for the drug have not yet received their supplies, and are hoping an injunction will move things along
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New England editorial roundup
The face of opiate addiction in Maine has long been an adult one — a woman who rifles through her grandmother's medicine cabinet, or a man who holds up a pharmacy. This is changing, though, and not for the better. More Maine babies than ever are being …
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Florida veteran pressing lawmakers, VA to prescribe fewer pain killers
"[Spinal cord stimulation] is a therapy where we are managing [patients with chronic pain] without opiates," explained Dr. Vinod Malik, a pain specialist who practices in Orange City. Malik said the device can be safer and more cost-effective that the …
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Utah's Addiction: Heroin making a big comeback with Utah teens
PROVO , Utah (ABC 4 Utah) – A decades old street drug is making its way into Utah homes and is taking over the lives of our children. Heroin is making a comeback.   It’s an addiction that can start right in the home. For many Utah kids it starts in the medicine cabinets.   "We're a pill state,” said New Roads Treatment Centers CEO Eric Schmidt. “I mean there are a lot of prescriptions, so there …
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DA: Tromblee pulled armed robberies to support heroin addiction
A 35-year-old Manorville man accused of pulling off 10 armed robberies in Suffolk County, including one in Calverton and one Mattituck, was doing so to support a heroin addiction, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office. Paul Tromblee pleaded not guilty in county criminal court Friday to nine counts of first-degree armed robbery and […]
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Utah's Addiction: Heroin making a big comeback with Utah teens
PROVO, Utah (ABC 4 Utah) – A decades old street drug is making its way into Utah homes and is taking over the lives of our children. Heroin is making a comeback. It’s an addiction that can start right in the home. For many Utah kids it starts in the medicine cabinets.
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Heroin Summit: addiction doctor says managing addiction is 'indefinite'
Jason Jerry, an addiction specialist at the Cleveland Clinic, said successfully treating addiction takes a lifelong approach.
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Young people's mental illness and substance abuse a 'two-way street'
For experts such as McGorry, it has become clear that one major aspect of young adult life linked to mental health problems is drug and alcohol use. Researchers from the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Research Institute have reported the …
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Heroin use spikes in young adults, UW report says
“The increase among young adults is very concerning,” Banta-Green said. Rodriguez said many young people began their drug use through pharmaceutical-type opioids, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, often raided from a medicine cabinet. “But once …
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Suncoast Rehab Warns Students Against “Academic Doping”—Adderall Abuse …
Suncoast Rehab Center, a Spring Hill drug rehab facility, warns young adults of the dangers of Adderall, and encourages widespread drug-abuse education. Today, it has become commonplace to find teenagers and college students who readily admit to …
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