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'We'Re All Paying:' Heroin Spreads Misery in US

'We're all paying:' Heroin spreads misery in US
My daughter's on heroin,'" says Candy Murray Abbott, who helped her own 27-year-old son through withdrawal. Abbott and childhood friend Tammie Norris, whose daughter was also a heroin user, decided last year to bring attention to the problem in their …
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New Painkiller Banned from Mass. Pharmacy Shelves
(WGGB) — In response to the public health emergency of growing heroin overdoses and opioid addiction, the state has banned the painkiller Zohydro. The ban was approved last week after the … Efforts by Congress and at the state level to legislate the …
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