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Warning of Heroin Epidemic After Hoffman Death

Warning of heroin epidemic after Hoffman death
The death of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman from a suspected drugs overdose has highlighted a growing epidemic of heroin use across the United States, officials have said.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman's death spotlights heroin epidemic in US
The shocking death of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman from a suspected drugs overdose has spotlighted a growing epidemic of heroin use across the United States, officials warn.        
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Actor's Death Spotlights Heroin Epidemic

Actor's death spotlights heroin epidemic
The shocking death of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman from a suspected drugs overdose has spotlighted a growing epidemic of heroin use across the United States, officials warn. "Heroin is a growing epidemic," US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) spokesman Joseph Moses told AFP. Renewed heroin use comes years after New York quashed its reputation as the heroin capital of the United …
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New face of heroin epidemic
The death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman from an apparent overdose of heroin has, like the death of “Glee” star Cory Monteith , highlighted the resurgence in use of a narcotic that once seemed to be fading away.
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Actor's death spotlights heroin epidemic in US
The shocking death of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman from a suspected drugs overdose has spotlighted a growing epidemic of heroin use across the United States, officials warn.        
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Actor’s Death Spotlights Heroin Epidemic – GlobalPost

Actor’s death spotlights heroin epidemic – GlobalPost


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Actor's death spotlights heroin epidemic
GlobalPost
But the DEA says that is changing, thanks to increased production in Mexico, increased smuggling and users increasingly addicted to prescription opiates then swapping to cheaper heroin. It was this progression that Hoffman last year confessed to
'An epidemic of heroin': Hoffman is a new face of growing problemNBCNews.com
Recovering addicts talk heroin addictionKSFY
Philip Seymour Hoffman Didn't Have to DieTruth-Out

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Hooked Anew: The Rising Heroin Epidemic – Neon Tommy


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Hooked Anew: The Rising Heroin Epidemic
Neon Tommy
The San Diego Association of Governments' Criminal Justice Research Division (SANDAG), a planning and policy-making organization, found in 2012 that opiate use was at an all-time high for young adults ages 18-24. After admitting to his family that

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Mother Arrested After Overdose of Child, Police Say – ksl.com

Mother arrested after overdose of child, police say – ksl.com


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Mother arrested after overdose of child, police say
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TOOELE — A 2-year-old boy is dead after a mother put methadone in a sippy cup he shared with two other siblings, police said. Friday around 6:45 p.m., Tooele police were called to a home on reports of an unresponsive toddler. Police and emergency 

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2 arrested for selling Suboxone, a drug created to treat addiction – Poughkeepsie Journal

2 arrested for selling Suboxone, a drug created to treat addiction
Poughkeepsie Journal
Like methadone, Suboxone is a controlled substance that is prescribed to treat addictions to drugs like heroin, opiate painkillers and others, reports Narconon International's website. It was approved in 2002 for addiction treatment and almost "as soon

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Our View: Addiction Puts Infants at Risk – Monroe News Star

Our view: Addiction puts infants at risk – Monroe News Star

Our view: Addiction puts infants at risk
Monroe News Star
From 2000 to 2010, there was a fivefold increase in the number of pregnant women who used or abused opiates, with these mothers accounting for 5.6 out of 1,000 hospital births annually, according to the study. And those numbers play out locally

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He lost it all to meth. The marriage. The money. The job covering crime. – Lake Expo

He lost it all to meth. The marriage. The money. The job covering crime.
Lake Expo
He switched to pills — opiates, then benzos. Followed briefly by heroin. Followed by methadone. Followed by cold turkey. Four stints in rehab. In and out. But through it all, he kept it largely together. Held on to the wife and the kids, the job and

Methadone Clinic to Open This Week – Eagle-Tribune

Methadone clinic to open this week – Eagle-Tribune

Methadone clinic to open this week
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HAVERHILL — The city has given up its fight to prevent a methadone dispensary from opening in a busy commercial area on the Plaistow, N.H. border. Methadone is a synthetic drug that is used to treat addicts suffering from heroin and other opiate 

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Peekskill thwarted in attempt to block methadone clinic – The Journal News | LoHud.com

Peekskill thwarted in attempt to block methadone clinic
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Lawmakers had sought to vacate a building permit issued in September by a city official to the Renaissance Project — the organization that's renovating the building at 3 Corporate Drive so it can offer opiate treatment and outpatient programs. The

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Our view: Addiction puts infants at risk – Monroe News Star