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Prescription Pain Pills Often Lead to Harder Drugs — and to Camden
Prescription pain pills often lead to harder drugs — and to Camden
Kyle (above and below), a 26-year-old drug addict, injects heroin behind an abandoned building in South Camden. Kyle began taking prescription painkillers after being injured in a car accident. He eventually turned to heroin. / Photos by Chris …
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Mercy Medical doctors see increase in babies born with addictions
Sensor, who delivers about 200 babies per year, delivered eight babies in the last year who had to go through heroin withdrawal and detoxification after they were born. “It's sad. It makes me sad that patients get on heroin in the first place … “It …
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The Bonds That Bind Them: Getting Sex-Trafficking Victims Out of the Game …
The bonds that bind them: Getting sex-trafficking victims out of the game …
A study by nonprofit agency A Heart for Justice found that a human trafficker can make $ 200,000 per victim per year, 10 times the $ 20,000 profit in one kilogram of a street drug. Kiera was vulnerable … Based on data from the Polaris Project, a …
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More and more suburban women using heroin
The Drug Enforcement Administration says it is seeing a large number of heroin on the streets of North Texas, and that suburban women are getting hooked on the drug in record numbers. They are seeing women who were once addicted to pain pills switching …
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DuPage County Tries to Keep Drug Users Out of Jail
DuPage County tries to keep drug users out of jail
Prescription painkillers are often a pathway to heroin. A recent federal report found that four out of five new heroin users had previously used illicit pain pills. That's how Nick Gore got hooked. Gore said his childhood in suburban Bartlett — 35 miles west of Chicago — was normal. But in his early 20s, Gore developed a boulder-sized kidney stone that required multiple surgeries. And …
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More and More Suburban Women Using Heroin
More and more suburban women using heroin
The Drug Enforcement Administration says it is seeing a large number of heroin on the streets of North Texas, and that suburban women are getting hooked on the drug in record numbers. They are seeing women who were once addicted to pain pills …
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Bipartisan Effort Takes on Pain Pill and Heroin Abuse – Columbus Dispatch
Bipartisan effort takes on pain pill and heroin abuse – Columbus Dispatch
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Bipartisan effort takes on pain pill and heroin abuse
Columbus Dispatch A bi-partisan Ohio House legislative package aimed at tackling prescription pain pill and heroin abuse includes a proposal to spend $ 180 million on “recovery housing” for people working to kick the drug habit. The one-time infusion of housing money … |
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Nigella Lawson Isn't the Only One to Have Taken Drugs
Nigella Lawson isn't the only one to have taken drugs
The reality is that people rarely tell the whole truth about drug use in public unless they are forced to, yet the UK charity DrugScope, in figures for 2011/12, found that an estimated one in three adults had taken an illicit drug in their lifetime (a …
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Lady Gaga Says She's Addicted To Marijuana: Is It Possible?
While research has shown that the percentage of people who try marijuana and become addicted to it is small, it is possible to get hooked on the drug. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about 9 percent of marijuana users become …
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