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With Heroin Use on the Rise, Local Advocates Monitoring Effect on AIDS Epidemic – the Times-Picayune

With heroin use on the rise, local advocates monitoring effect on AIDS epidemic – The Times-Picayune

With heroin use on the rise, local advocates monitoring effect on AIDS epidemic
The Times-Picayune
Daniel Jung, 27, of and HIV-positive man from Kenner, was arrested, accused of exposing a JPSO deputy and two other people to the virus through a needle used to inject heroin. Local advocates say they are keeping a close eye on the effects of the

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Heroin Addiction – Google News

Lawmakers and families touched by heroin addiction hold forum – News 10NBC


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Lawmakers and families touched by heroin addiction hold forum
News 10NBC
Heroin abuse is being called an epidemic and something all parents need to be aware of. On Tuesday, families who have been personally touched by heroin addiction joined law enforcement and state lawmakers for a forum. The goal of the forum was to …
Parents Testify To Senate Task Force About Heroin AddictionWXXI News
At hearing, too-familiar tales of heroin's gripRochester Democrat and Chronicle
State Responds To Growing Heroin EpidemicWROC-TV
Utica Observer Dispatch –13WHAM-TV –WHAM
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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

Heroin ‘filled the hole’: For kid from suburbs, pot was first stop on road to … – Omaha World-Herald

Heroin 'filled the hole': For kid from suburbs, pot was first stop on road to
Omaha World-Herald
But after six months, he said, he realized he'd replaced one addiction with another, so he entered a detox program. He has been sober since Oct. 12. Lewis attends Narcotics Anonymous meetings and group therapy and has begun speaking about his heroin …
Treatment for addicts must be availableStandard Speaker

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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – NPR

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment – NPR

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment
NPR
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.

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Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Coroner: Bucks inmate died of heart failure during heroin withdrawal – Bucks County Courier Times

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.

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Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Crimea Heroin Addicts Deprived Of Methadone After Russia Annexation – Business Insider

East End Heroin Task Force to Combat Heroin Addiction Announced – Riverhead LOCAL

East End heroin task force to combat heroin addiction announced – Riverhead LOCAL


Riverhead LOCAL

East End heroin task force to combat heroin addiction announced
Riverhead LOCAL
On Monday, New York State Senator Ken LaValle, Assemblyman Fred Thiele and Assemblyman Anthony Palumbo announced the formation of a new Heroin Addiction Legislative Task Force, or H.A.L.T, with a focus on identifying causes and solutions to fight …
Pols concoct plan to combat 'scourge of heroin'Suffolk Times
Senator Ken LaValle, Assemblymen Fred Thiele And Anthony Palumbo LongIsland.com

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Heroin Addiction – Google News

St. Tammany authorities vow to ‘aggressively combat’ rise in heroin use – The Times-Picayune

St. Tammany authorities vow to 'aggressively combat' rise in heroin use
The Times-Picayune
35 arrested in St. Tammany Parish heroin bust Authorities announced at a press conference on April 14, 2014, that 35 people have been arrested on various heroin possession charges in St. Tammany Parish, the result of a months-long joint operation …

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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

Heroin ‘filled the hole’: For kid from suburbs, pot was first stop on road to … – Omaha World-Herald

Heroin 'filled the hole': For kid from suburbs, pot was first stop on road to
Omaha World-Herald
In this February 2014 photo, Karen Lewis listens to her son, Cody, a recovering heroin addict, talk abut his life and addiction at the Good Samaritan Methodist Church in Addison, Ill. About a month after his release from a court-ordered 8½-month
Treatment for addicts must be availableStandard Speaker

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Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment – NPR

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment – NPR

Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment
NPR
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.

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Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Coroner: Bucks inmate died of heart failure during heroin withdrawal – Bucks County Courier Times

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.

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Heroin Withdrawal – Google News

Crimea Heroin Addicts Deprived Of Methadone After Russia Annexation – Business Insider