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Heroin Users Seeking Treatment May Hit Insurance Barriers – Boston Globe

Heroin users seeking treatment may hit insurance barriers – Boston Globe


Boston Globe

Heroin users seeking treatment may hit insurance barriers
Boston Globe
The doctors shook their heads: Heroin withdrawal is not life-threatening, they said, and we can't admit you. They gave him an IV flush, and sent him home. Marchese, then 26, and his sister called multiple inpatient clinics only to be told: We have no beds.

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Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug … – Insurance News Net (press release)

Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug
Insurance News Net (press release)
A 20-bed detox facility on Coit Street in New London , run by Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Inc. , is in the midst of a $ 900,000 renovation in part to accommodate medical staff for patients suffering the painful effects of

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Deadly addiction: Doctors say heroin treatment is available – TheDay.com

Deadly addiction: Doctors say heroin treatment is available
TheDay.com
"Heroin is cheaper and it stops the painful withdrawal symptoms (from prescription opiates)," said Parekh. "But I try to tell them, whatever pain you had when you started, the pain of heroin is much worse." Despite the long and well-known history of

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