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Recovering Drug Addict Recalls Saginaw’s ‘Heroin Wars’ of 1970s – MLive.com
Heroin Addiction: Recovering drug addict recalls Saginaw’s ‘heroin wars’ of 1970s – MLive.com
SAGINAW TWP. — Linda Gilliland was an 18-year-old mother when an older relative introduced her to opiates. First came codeine-based cough medicine. Next, codeine pills and the cocaine. Gilliland began snorting heroin in 1966, a year after her …
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Heroin Addiction: Mother of Overdose Victim Tells Son’s Story, Warns of Heroin’s Emergence as … – the Saginaw News – MLive.com
Heroin Addiction: Mother of overdose victim tells son’s story, warns of heroin’s emergence as … – The Saginaw News – MLive.com
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The Saginaw News – MLive.com Today, Hamilton-Voelker attends therapy sessions for heroin addicts and their loved ones, so she knows the signs. Back then, she wasn't aware that her son's declining hygiene, his worsening acne, his drop in weight, tendency to sleep all day and his … |
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Heroin Addiction: Law enforcement agencies grapple with heroin resurgence – Chicago Sun-Times
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Law enforcement agencies grapple with heroin resurgence
Chicago Sun-Times It aims to discourage young people from ever trying heroin. The US Department of Justice recently awarded the Will County Drug Court $ 200000 to provide resources for the treatment and rehabilitation of heroin addicts. Established in 1999, the drug … |
Heroin Addiction: Three Decades After Saginaw’s Deadly ‘Heroin Wars,’ Police Say Drug Making … – the Saginaw News – MLive.com
Heroin Addiction: Three decades after Saginaw’s deadly ‘heroin wars,’ police say drug making … – The Saginaw News – MLive.com
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Three decades after Saginaw's deadly 'heroin wars,' police say drug making …
The Saginaw News – MLive.com Saginaw police files lump heroin cases with other drug-related incidents, while records at DOT Caring Centers show broad characterizations of its patients, grouping heroin addicts with abusers of other opiates. But the statistics relating to that … |
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Heroin Addiction: Police are winning the pill mill battle, but heroin may fill the void … – Sun-Sentinel
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Police are winning the pill mill battle, but heroin may fill the void …
Sun-Sentinel Many heroin addicts switched to oxycodone in the early 2000s when the pills were becoming readily available, experts said. That's around the time pill-based overdoses started to rise and heroin overdoses dropped, Hall said. Last year, there were five … |
Saginaw Alcohol, Drug Recovery Program MidMichigan Teen Challenge Celebrates … – MLive.com
Heroin Withdrawal: Saginaw alcohol, drug recovery program MidMichigan Teen Challenge celebrates … – MLive.com
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Saginaw alcohol, drug recovery program MidMichigan Teen Challenge celebrates …
MLive.com SAGINAW — Adrian McKissick was pronounced dead from alcohol withdrawal. But the 31-year-old Saginaw resident survived seizures and a six-day coma, and turned her life around in the MidMichigan Teen Challenge program. The residential Christ-centered … |
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State, Grand Rapids Clinics See Growing Need for Subsidized Methadone … – MLive.com
Heroin Withdrawal: State, Grand Rapids clinics see growing need for subsidized methadone … – MLive.com
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MLive.com Methadone, used for about 40 years as a heroin treatment, is a synthetic narcotic that suppresses drug withdrawal for 24 to 36 hours by occupying the opioid receptor in the brain. But the drug-abuse problem has become so pervasive, the state and … |
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