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Why the US Fails at Treating Addiction (Op-Ed)
Janina Kean, a substance-abuse and addiction expert, is president and CEO of High Watch Recovery Center, the world's first 12-Step treatment center. Kean led the first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting to be held in China's Yunnan province, within the world's opiate triangle, where she was invited to teach physicians how to properly care for patients with heroin addiction. She contributed this …
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Heroin: Deadly drug on the upswing locally
Marie Foshee waits up in her Bayou Blue living room every night, half expecting her only son to walk through the door. It's been nearly three months since Bubba left treatment and died from a heroin overdose, and she still can't understand it.
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Dangerous path from pain pills use to heroin addiction
The drug companies that developed opiate-base painkillers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, then marketed them as non-addictive wonder drugs, bear a lion's share of the blame for the current heroin epidemic, according to Evans. “We were lied to …
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Nigella Lawson tells court: 'I would never make my children orphans through …
Nigella Lawson has told a court she would never risk making her children "orphans" by becoming addicted to cocaine or other drugs. She also denied … Miss Lawson told a jury her ex-husband Charles Saatchi knew she had taken cocaine with her first …
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Dangerous path from pain pills use to heroin addiction – The Morning Journal

Dangerous path from pain pills use to heroin addiction The Morning Journal During the 2013 Heroin Summit last month in Cleveland, Marks stood in front of a large audience at the InterContinetal Hotel and spoke about the sequence of events that carried him to heroin addiction. “I was 15 when I started dabbling in prescription … and more »

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Fighting drug abuse through education – WNYT

Fighting drug abuse through education WNYT AVERILL PARK – Drug counselors in Averill Park are hoping the remedy for heroin addiction is a mixture of awareness and communication, hence their effort to stem a drug epidemic through education. The challenge, according to drug counselors, is greater … and more »

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Alternative Health: Alternatives for Anxiety
A perfectly normal person will go through withdrawal symptoms if he abruptly stops taking Valium or opiate pain pills. It's called physiologic dependence, and can certainly be a downside of using these medications. BuSpar doesn't have this …
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Dangerous path from pain pills use to heroin addiction – News-Herald.com

Dangerous path from pain pills use to heroin addiction News-Herald.com During the 2013 Heroin Summit last month in Cleveland, Marks stood in front of a large audience at the InterContinetal Hotel and spoke about the sequence of events that carried him to heroin addiction. “I was 15 when I started dabbling in prescription … and more »

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Seek help if you suspect drug addiction – News-Herald.com

Seek help if you suspect drug addiction News-Herald.com “There are a vast number of symptoms, including major changes in behavior, less participation in family activities and possessions starting to disappear,'' said Kim Fraser, executive director of Lake County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health …

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Stats indicate drug-abuse epidemic, but have we become desensitized? – Youngstown Vindicator    Read more...

Prescription Drug Abuse Spikes Heroin Use – Payson Roundup

Prescription Drug Abuse Spikes Heroin Use Payson Roundup “The gateway to heroin use is through prescription pain pills containing oxycodone and hydrocodone,” said Dr. David Greenberg, a Scottsdale-based expert in addiction medicine. “Over 95 percent of heroin addicts that I see got their start using …

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