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Target2: Heroin Epidemic, a Lengthy Recovery

Target2: Heroin Epidemic, A Lengthy Recovery
Target 2 examines the difficult road to recovery for heroin addicts.
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Peaches was secretly visiting rehab centre weeks before her death, report claims
The mother-of-two may have been battling secret heroin addiction by using methadone
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Prescription abuse skyrocketing, leading to more heroin addicts, experts say
District attorneys, health officials and substance abuse experts gathered May 7 in San Francisco to discuss the growing problem of prescription abuse and come up with strategies, including requiring the use of drug databases and more aggressive crackdowns on 'dirty doctors.
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While Heroin Epidemic Rages, Bain Seeks Profit in Drug Treatment Centers

While heroin epidemic rages, Bain seeks profit in drug treatment centers
The clinic parking lot is jammed on a Monday morning at 10:30. Inside the bustling waiting room, patients talk to staff and wait their turn at the medicine window. A young blond woman fights off sleep, slumping against a suitcase.
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Prescription pills and pot labeled 'gateway' to heroin
Not everyone would think of Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, the Rolling Stones, as prophets of their time, but the words of "Mother's Little Helper" ring true today more than ever.
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Consultant Likens E-Cigs to Methadone

Consultant likens e-cigs to methadone
A hospital consultant has likened e-cigarettes to heroin substitute methadone as he revealed two children have presented at an emergency department having been poisoned by liquid nicotine.
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Heroin deaths on the rise in region
A growing heroin epidemic in Connecticut brought U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) to Hartford March 17 to discuss the problem with local service providers, law enforcement, health care advocates, and patients.
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Time for a Local Drug Treatment Center or Methadone Clinic, Say Some Officials – Bennington Banner

Time for a local drug treatment center or methadone clinic, say some officials – Bennington Banner

Time for a local drug treatment center or methadone clinic, say some officials
Bennington Banner
Kristyn Harrington, assistant principal and school-based clinician at Mount Anthony Union High School, speaks on the panel, during a discussion held on Friday at the Bennington Fire Facility to discuss the heroin problem in Bennington. « 1; ».

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Drug users recruit pensioners for pain medication – Esperance Express

Drug users recruit pensioners for pain medication
Esperance Express
Abuse had resulted in a significant jump of Hunter people entering the methadone program, traditionally used to treat heroin addiction, for prescription opioid abuse. ''Currently, about 20 per cent of people we see on the methadone program [are there

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Heroin Epidemic Gives Rise to a Generation of ‘Suboxone Babies’ – Al Jazeera America (Blog)

Heroin epidemic gives rise to a generation of ‘Suboxone babies’ – Al Jazeera America (blog)


Al Jazeera America (blog)

Heroin epidemic gives rise to a generation of 'Suboxone babies'
Al Jazeera America (blog)
Coleman has lived her entire life in Rutland, Vt. It's a picturesque town with a dark secret: the most opiate-addicted pregnant women per capita in the country. A Vermont They are often treated with methadone, another opioid drug, and morphine. And

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Wounded Vets at Rx Risk: VA Hospitals Overprescribe Addictive Pain-Killers … – SILive.com

Wounded vets at Rx risk: VA hospitals overprescribe addictive pain-killers … – SILive.com

Wounded vets at Rx risk: VA hospitals overprescribe addictive pain-killers
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Prescriptions by the VA of four highly addictive narcotics — oxycodone, hydrocodone, methadone and morphine — jumped by 270 percent from 2001 to 2012. It far exceeded the The CIR has found that the reliance on opiates varied widely. VA hospitals

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Top federal drug policy official to visit Vermont – Brattleboro Reformer


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Top federal drug policy official to visit Vermont
Brattleboro Reformer
MONTPELIER — A top White House drug policy official will visit Vermont next week to talk about innovative ways to beat opiate addiction as the state's fight against heroin continues to draw national attention. The director of the Office of National
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