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Rise in Heroin Use Leads to More Patients at Treatment Centers – StarNewsOnline.com

Rise in heroin use leads to more patients at treatment centers – StarNewsOnline.com

Rise in heroin use leads to more patients at treatment centers
StarNewsOnline.com
Methadone has some of the same addictive qualities of opiates, but withdrawal is less severe and the euphoric effect is reduced. Some patients use methadone as a maintenance strategy, remaining on the drug for years, but functioning in society. Others 

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Innocents Lost: Drugs Cause Scores of Child Deaths Every Year in Florida – Tampabay.com

Innocents Lost: Drugs cause scores of child deaths every year in Florida – Tampabay.com

Innocents Lost: Drugs cause scores of child deaths every year in Florida
Tampabay.com
The Miami Herald's comprehensive examination of 477 child deaths whose families were known to the Department of Children & Families found that, in 323 cases, one or both parents had a state-documented history of alcohol or drug abuse. The investigation

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Stop Drug Use – the Virginian-Pilot

Stop drug use – The Virginian-Pilot

Stop drug use
The Virginian-Pilot
Stronger, truly addictive drugs are health issues and drug addiction should be treated as an illness – not as a crime. Other countries provide addicts with drugs as medicines (we do,too, with Methadone which is basically heroin) undercutting the

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Addiction begins easily; recovery takes effort – nwitimes.com

Addiction begins easily; recovery takes effort
nwitimes.com
Methadone treatment is 100 percent voluntary,” said Victoria Charleston, director of addiction at Edgewater Systems at The Turning Point building, which is the organization's addiction services center, at 1110 W. 5th Ave. in Gary. “Addiction is a

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Hagerstown methadone clinic plans move – Herald-Mail Media

LePage’s Plan to Get Tough on Drug Abuse Needs to Be More Than a Campaign Speech

LePage’s plan to get tough on drug abuse needs to be more than a campaign speech
Posted March 14, 2014, at 11:07 a.m. One can only hope that Gov. Paul LePage’s announcement this week about his plan to get tough on drugs is authentic and not a campaign speech, because truthfully it sounded like one.
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Drug Users Recruit Pensioners for Pain Medication – Wellington Times

Drug users recruit pensioners for pain medication – Wellington Times

Drug users recruit pensioners for pain medication
Wellington Times
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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Fight with heroin addiction leads Crystal Bonsel along a winding road – Marion Star

Fight with heroin addiction leads Crystal Bonsel along a winding road
Marion Star
Those stopped working so I got Perc 30s and methadone. Eventually, I couldn't get the Perc 30s (30-milligram Percocet pills)…,” and she turned to heroin in May 2012. Despite a stay at Talbot Hall in Columbus for addiction recovery services, which

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Heroin Homicide Charge a First in Rock Island County – Quad City Times

Heroin homicide charge a first in Rock Island County – Quad City Times

Heroin homicide charge a first in Rock Island County
Quad City Times
Steward's is the first case a defendant has been charged with drug-induced homicide in the 14th Judicial Circuit, which includes Rock Island, Henry, Mercer and Whiteside counties. "With the evidence we will be presenting, we Carrie Hoon was

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Drug users recruit pensioners for pain medication – Armidale Express

Drug users recruit pensioners for pain medication
Armidale 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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