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What's on Saturday
What's on Saturday
The list of problems includes sibling rivalry, teenage pregnancy, drug addiction and imprisonment. 9 P.M. (Hallmark) A LESSON IN ROMANCE (2014) A frazzled, career-driven woman (Kristy Swanson) tries to rebuild her family by joining her twins (Paul …
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Highland County drug deaths at state average
Heroin addiction has been increasing as prescription painkiller abusers turn to the cheaper and more readily available drug, and local officials agreed with that conclusion. “Percocets (a form of oxycodone) are going for about $ 25 or $ 30 per pill” on …
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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – the Journal News / Lohud.com
Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment – The Journal News / Lohud.com
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Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
The Journal News / Lohud.com 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. Fast facts about some obstacles to heroin sobriety |
Heroin Withdrawal – Google News
Coroner: Bucks inmate died of heart failure during heroin withdrawal – Bucks County Courier Times
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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. |
'An Addict With Friends'
'An Addict With Friends'
But even with the rise in fatalities, the rate of heroin-related deaths remained lower than it was for most of the previous decade, and other measures — visits to emergency rooms or self-reported use in the last year — remained well below mid-decade …
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Heroin Overdose Death Rates Explode Across VA
No matter their path to heroin, all users say the same thing: "Once you start using the needle you're never going to go back," echoes Capria Turner, a heroin addict and inmate at Northwestern Regional Adult Detention Center (NRADC).. Officials say …
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For Heroin Treatment, Testing A New Drug And 'Peddling Hope'
But, Cummings acknowledges, it's early. Barnstable does not yet have any numbers on Vivitrol recovery rates, and there are no long-term studies. The drug was just approved for heroin addiction treatment in 2010. Doctors aren't sure how long patients …
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Saving Lives With a Radical Plan
Saving Lives With a Radical Plan
Some argue that it is more important to prevent young people from using illicit drugs, and providing treatment to current addicts, than to provide harm reduction services to prevent the serious consequences of drug use. But no vaccine prevents …
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Thief attacked angina sufferer while she was caring for granddaughter
A drug addict who bit a 64-year-old woman's finger close to the bone during a robbery has been jailed for 19 months. Kirsty Wilson, 33 … close to the bone. She required numerous vaccinations and medication to counter any possible diseases from the …
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Vaccinating Addiction Away
A vaccine “could be used for any addictive molecule,” said study leader and physician Roger Crystal, whose group is also developing a nicotine vaccine. Other researchers are working on vaccines to block the effects of heroin, methamphetamine and …
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Legislators Are Told Addiction Services Are Fragmented, Clients Younger – Worcester Telegram
Legislators are told addiction services are fragmented, clients younger – Worcester Telegram
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Legislators are told addiction services are fragmented, clients younger
Worcester Telegram Dr. DiLorenzo also called for more physicians who could administer Suboxone, a semi-synthetic opiod used to treat opiate addiction, which is considered to have lower risk for abuse than Methadone. The perverse byproduct of relatively few inpatient beds … |
Saving Lives With a Radical Plan – New York Times
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Saving Lives With a Radical Plan
New York Times In Vancouver, users can inject heroin at sites where they receive clean needles and overdose protection, as well as counseling. In its first 2 1/2 years of operation, drug overdoses in the neighborhood around … Extensive research has demonstrated the … |
Vermont Battling a ‘Full-Blown Heroin Crisis’ – Christian Broadcasting Network
Vermont Battling a ‘Full-Blown Heroin Crisis’ – Christian Broadcasting Network
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Vermont Battling a 'Full-Blown Heroin Crisis'
Christian Broadcasting Network MONTPELIER, Vt. — America has a heroin problem, especially in the Northeast. The recent death of Academy-award winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is by no means an isolated case and officials have reported a spike in the abuse of the drug in New … Heroin Addiction: Tell Us Your Story Philip Seymour Hoffman's Story and Obamacare Coverage of Drug Addiction Guest view: Drug overdoses an issue we cannot ignore |
Heroin Addiction – Google News
Heroin: New England’s Unlikely Epidemic – LiveScience.com
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Heroin: New England's Unlikely Epidemic
LiveScience.com In quaint New England towns, where white-spired churches dot a landscape of rolling farmland and leafy forests, local residents and government officials are alarmed over a deadly scourge more often linked to gritty urban ghettos: heroin addiction. In … |