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County joins resolution against legalized pot
By getting signatures of governments throughout the state, the local MatForce coalition against drug abuse seeks to send a message that the initiative petition drive isn't welcome here. "We need to make ourselves a hard target for the Marijuana … The …
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Smoking and Health, and Death. And You're worried about the illicits?
Only The New York Times gave an absolute number: in New York City, heroin-related deaths were all the way up to 382, for the whole year of 2012. In that year, nationally to be sure, there were about 1200 tobacco-use related deaths per day and about 180 …
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Budget boosts funds for NJ drug courts
In 2012, heroin and opiate treatment admissions exceeded 33,000 people, according to state Department of Human Services statistics. “If you're really going to talk about the shift from addiction to treatment, it's not just for those who get arrested …
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Killing pain
As this public-health crisis shifts from prescription painkillers such as Vicodin, Percocet, and OxyContin to heroin, Ohio will need sweeping education efforts aimed at physicians, patients, and the public, as well as treatment programs for those who …
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Hooked Anew: The Rising Heroin Epidemic
These receptors are located in the brain stem that controls automatic processes vital for life such as blood pressure, arousal and respiration—posing a significant risk to these systems when heroin enters the bloodstream. “When everything really …
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Charleston-area heroin use trending upward?
… Row area of Los Angeles. In 2009, North Charleston Police seized 2,000 wax paper baggies containing about $ 200,000 worth of heroin from a secret compartment beneath the center console inside a Pontiac Grand Prix. … Tests showed high …
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West End teens say heroin use 'explosive' in Virginia suburbs
The path from opiate painkillers to heroin use is becoming well-tread, even among the young, experts say. In 2010, two million people reported using prescription painkillers non-medically for the first time, nearly 5,500 a day, according to federal data.
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Heroin use rising in state, U.S. attorney says
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More addicts are turning to heroin when prescription pills become too expensive or too hard to find, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said Wednesday night. That has lead to a surge in heroin abuse that some fear might become a full-blown e…
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Report shows heroin use reaching epidemic proportions in NH
Heroin addiction in New Hampshire is at epidemic proportions, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services.
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Heroin use climbs in Maine as cheaper alternative to prescription drugs
Today’s addicts are a consequence of years of access to prescription painkillers, an expert explains.
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Heroin use climbs in Maine as cheaper alternative to prescription drugs
Today’s addicts are a consequence of years of access to prescription painkillers, an expert explains.
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Heroin Symposium: Part 4 – Heroin Symposium with Krissy McAfee, parent who lost her son to heroin addiction.

Heroin use climbs in Maine as cheaper alternative to prescription drugs – Press Herald

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Heroin use climbs in Maine as cheaper alternative to prescription drugs Press Herald That's what has happened in Maine and across the country as abuse of prescription painkillers has led to opiate addiction, driving some users to heroin as a less expensive alternative. As Morris said, the commonly prescribed painkiller OxyContin costs … and more »

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