Posts Tagged ‘prescription drug abuse’
America's Heroin Epidemic: Where to Find Help
America's Heroin Epidemic: Where to Find Help
'Downhill Spiral': America's Heroin Epidemic. Nightly News. The US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration provides a toll-free and confidential hotline 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, providing assistance in English and Spanish for …
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Hometown News Calendar for Week of Apr 27, 2014
If someone in your life is struggling with addiction or abuse of chemicals you may gain a better understanding of the addiction process; how it develops, progresses, and what those around the impacted individual can do to assist in dealing with this …
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The Heroin Highway on Long Island
Last year I wrote about Long Island's continuing battle with prescription drug abuse and the “I-STOP” law we passed to create a statewide, real-time prescription tracking database. The good news is these efforts worked. There's been a dramatic decrease …
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NY Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Curb Flood of Mexican Heroin Into the State – Fox News Latino
NY Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Curb Flood Of Mexican Heroin Into The State – Fox News Latino
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NY Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Curb Flood Of Mexican Heroin Into The State
Fox News Latino Four months later, in March 2013 – after detox, inpatient treatment, meetings and stints of sobriety – Laree, who graduated high school at 16, was found dead in her bed of an apparent overdose five days shy of her 19th birthday. A study by the … |
Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug … – TheDay.com
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Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug …
TheDay.com Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug abusers, on the rise in region. By Greg Smith and Izaskun E. Larrañeta …. Local detox facilities are a starting point for long-term treatment for many. A 20-bed detox facility on … |
'Your Voice, Your Vote:' Prescription Drug Abuse
'Your Voice, Your Vote:' Prescription drug abuse
And what's even scarier is prescription painkiller abuse can lead to heroin addiction. Former Oregon U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton, who is now CEO of Lines of Life, a nonprofit agency that works to prevent substance abuse and suicide; Dr. Sharon Meieran …
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BC-US–Heroin Across America,ADVISORY, US
Then one night in June 2010, a strung-out Marchese went to the emergency room, frantically seeking help. The doctors shook their heads: Heroin withdrawal is not life-threatening, they said, and we can't admit you. Marchese and his sister stayed up all …
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Deadly Addiction: Heroin Use, a Tragic Wrong Turn for Prescription Drug … – TheDay.com
Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug … – TheDay.com
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Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug …
TheDay.com Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug abusers, on the rise in region. By Greg Smith and Izaskun E. Larrañeta …. Local detox facilities are a starting point for long-term treatment for many. A 20-bed detox facility on … |
Recovery advocate: ‘We don’t have a cure for addiction’ – Worcester Telegram
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Recovery advocate: 'We don't have a cure for addiction'
Worcester Telegram And they're creeping into the city and buying heroin." … "You get a case manager that helps you navigate welfare, Social Security or housing applications or job applications, or admitting into detox or a halfway house — they're called recovery homes … |
Fairfax Mother of Young Heroin Addict: ‘There Were Clues. but We Had No Clue.’ – Washington Post
Fairfax mother of young heroin addict: ‘There were clues. But we had no clue.’ – Washington Post
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Fairfax mother of young heroin addict: 'There were clues. But we had no clue.'
Washington Post The sentencing last week of a D.C. heroin dealer whose drugs killed three other young adults in Fairfax has cast a harsh light on the problem of addiction in Washington's suburbs. Even in this affluent, well-educated area, young people are jeopardizing … |
Heroin Addiction – Google News
More Somerville families opening up about heroin addiction – Wicked Local Northborough
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More Somerville families opening up about heroin addiction
Wicked Local Northborough The names change but the story is the same. For Vicky Westcott, it's a story that more people need to hear. Only close family friends knew about her son Tommy's problem while he was alive, but nowadays when people ask what happened to him, she tells … |
Teen Shot Mother of His Child in the Head as Their Son Sat Between Them
Teen shot mother of his child in the head as their son sat between them
Timothy Scott Hendricks had only been out of jail a month when he took a pistol, pointed it girlfriend Michelle Marie Ploetz's head, and pulled the trigger with the couple's infant son sitting in a car seat between them. The details of that … At the …
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Macomb County leads state in fatal heroin overdoses
Heroin and opiate prescription drug abuse has skyrocketed in the county in recent years, giving Macomb the dubious distinction of leading the state in fatal heroin overdoses over a three-year period. Heroin began … Sheriff Anthony Wickersham said at …
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