Posts Tagged ‘south shore’
Watson: Treating Drug Addiction Needs Less Stigma
Watson: Treating drug addiction needs less stigma
Recently, a cluster of heroin overdoses and deaths on the South Shore of Massachusetts captured public attention and focused both citizens and local and state officials on the issues of drug use, prevention and treatment. Since 1996, when opiate-based …
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‘My Daughter Was Born a Heroin Addict’: Mother Says She Can Never Forgive … – Daily Mail
‘My daughter was born a heroin addict’: Mother says she can never forgive … – Daily Mail
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'My daughter was born a heroin addict': Mother says she can never forgive …
Daily Mail It can also cause the baby to have breathing difficulties after birth. One of the most serious problems heroin causes for the baby is withdrawal symptoms after birth. If the baby develops these, it will need special care in hospital. As the baby gets … |
Painkiller addict sent to detox unit – Warrnambool Standard
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Painkiller addict sent to detox unit
Warrnambool Standard She later attended court with solicitor Carolyn Howe, did not apply for bail and was remanded in custody until yesterday when it was organised for her to be released on bail to go into detox. Ms Miller is a former heroin addict who is now hooked on … |
Explosion of Drug-Exposed Infants Reveals Weakness in Massachusetts Child Protection
Explosion of drug-exposed infants reveals weakness in Massachusetts child protection
MARSHFIELD – Mya Barry was born in April 2011 with opiates already coursing through her tiny veins. But it was not the heroin passed to her in utero by her drug-addicted mother that killed the infant, prosecutors say. Instead, it was the heroin-tainted milk bottle her parents allegedly handed her five months later in their overcrowded and squalid apartment in this South Shore town. Now the …
Heroin Withdrawal – Yahoo News Search Results
Bond Set For Mother Accused In Role In Son’s Heroin Overdose – Raymond Strosina’s father says he had no clue that this had been going on.
Why Heroin Is Spreading in America’s Suburbs – Christian Science Monitor
Why heroin is spreading in America’s suburbs – Christian Science Monitor
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Why heroin is spreading in America's suburbs
Christian Science Monitor But by that time her dependence on the painkillers had become more than she could resist. She bought the heroin, snorting the powder at first. But within six days she was injecting herself with a needle – becoming the archetype of a classic heroin addict. |
Heroin Addiction – Google News
Mackenzie Phillips Opens Up On 11 Rehab Stints, Cocaine & Heroin Addiction … – Radar Online
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Mackenzie Phillips Opens Up On 11 Rehab Stints, Cocaine & Heroin Addiction …
Radar Online It's been a long road to recovery for actress Mackenzie Phillips following a staggering 11 stints in rehab and addiction to heroin and cocaine, but now the daughter of The Mamas & the Papas' lead singer is opening up about being six years sober … |
Why Heroin Is Spreading in America’s Suburbs – Christian Science Monitor
Why heroin is spreading in America’s suburbs – Christian Science Monitor
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Why heroin is spreading in America's suburbs
Christian Science Monitor But by that time her dependence on the painkillers had become more than she could resist. She bought the heroin, snorting the powder at first. But within six days she was injecting herself with a needle – becoming the archetype of a classic heroin addict. |
Heroin Addiction – Google News
Local officials ask lawmakers to spend more to combat heroin addiction – The Patriot Ledger
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Local officials ask lawmakers to spend more to combat heroin addiction
The Patriot Ledger The South Shore needs more addiction treatment beds, easier access to the overdose-reversing drug Narcan and drug education starting in elementary school to combat a growing heroin problem, police, firefighters, school officials and others told a state … |
Heroin Addiction: Heroin Use Infects County – St. Helens Chronicle
Heroin Addiction: Heroin use infects county – St. Helens Chronicle
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Heroin use infects county
St. Helens Chronicle Olsen said heroin has become just as popular in every city around the county. Heroin is serious because of its dependency as well as its effects on the body. Typical heroin users appear to have the same sort of sores and body type that are infamous … Police: Rising drug use fueling South Shore crime |
Heroin Addiction – Google News
Heroin Addiction: New website targets local heroin addiction – KMOV.com
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New website targets local heroin addiction
KMOV.com (KMOV)– Parents are saying they were blindsided by a heroin epidemic taking hold of suburbs around St. Louis. The problem has grown so big that county officials have now launched a website focused on the area and how this drug is so accessible. … |