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Heroin Abuse Under a Spotlight in Detroit After Death of Philip Seymour Hoffman

Heroin abuse under a spotlight in Detroit after death of Philip Seymour Hoffman
Doctors working shifts at the Detroit Medical Center's Emergency Room in the heart of the city say heroin overdoses are daily occurrences. Strike up a conversation with a Detroit resident and stories … Johnson, who has lost “at least a couple dozen …
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Heroin's Small-Town Toll, and a Mother's Grief
And those statistics lag behind heroin's resurgence over the last few years, as crackdowns on pill mills have made painkillers harder to get and new formulations have made them harder to abuse. Painkillers remain a far larger problem, but a federal …
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