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Heroin: What Is the Drug’s Powerful Draw and What Is Being Done to Stem the … – Altoona Mirror

Heroin: What is the drug’s powerful draw and what is being done to stem the … – Altoona Mirror

Heroin: What is the drug's powerful draw and what is being done to stem the
Altoona Mirror
"We want to make sure they get help," Rosser said, noting there's a number of services available to treat opiate addiction, including medicated assisted programs that use methadone and Suboxone, half-way houses and counseling. None are stand-alone 

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Police: Card Helped Lead to Break-in Suspect – Altoona Mirror

Police: Card helped lead to break-in suspect – Altoona Mirror

Police: Card helped lead to break-in suspect
Altoona Mirror
"We want to make sure they get help," Rosser said, noting there's a number of services available to treat opiate addiction, including medicated assisted programs that use methadone and Suboxone, half-way houses and counseling. None are stand-alone 

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Toledo woman struggles to escape heroin’s lethal grip – Toledo Blade

Toledo woman struggles to escape heroin's lethal grip
Toledo Blade
It also reflects the state's failure to treat widespread addiction effectively and why Ohio must do much more to help the more than 200,000 people in the state who are addicted to opioids, including heroin. Like Ms. Bryant, many of them were addicted

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Heroin: New England's Unlikely Epidemic

Heroin: New England's Unlikely Epidemic
In quaint New England towns, where white-spired churches dot a landscape of rolling farmland and leafy forests, local residents and government officials are alarmed over a deadly scourge more often linked to gritty urban ghettos: heroin addiction. In January, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin devoted his entire State of the State message to heroin, calling it "a crisis bubbling just beneath the surface …
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Mom Wasn’t Allowed to See Roman, Child-Welfare Files Show – Arizona Daily Star (Blog)

Mom wasn’t allowed to see Roman, child-welfare files show – Arizona Daily Star (blog)


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Mom wasn't allowed to see Roman, child-welfare files show
Arizona Daily Star (blog)
When Roman Barreras was born in July 2010, child-welfare workers took him while he was still in the hospital because his mother had tested positive for methadone, court records show. At that time, all five children were in state protective custody
Pictured: Toddler starved to death by his motherDaily Mail

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Taunton Police Arrest Five on Drug Charges; Two More Heroin-Related Overdoses … – Taunton Daily Gazette

Taunton police arrest five on drug charges; Two more heroin-related overdoses … – Taunton Daily Gazette

Taunton police arrest five on drug charges; Two more heroin-related overdoses
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The joint operation between Taunton officers, agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and detectives from surrounding police departments netted 140 grams of cocaine and 36 grams of heroin, authorities said. Detectives from Taunton, Norton, 

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Prescription-Drug Battle Fuels Rise in Heroin Use – Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

Prescription-drug battle fuels rise in heroin use – Fort Wayne Journal Gazette


Washington Post

Prescription-drug battle fuels rise in heroin use
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State and federal officials have pressed their campaign against prescription-drug abuse with urgency, trying to contain a scourge that kills more than 16,000 people each year. The crackdown has helped reduce the illegal use of some medications and
Experts: Officials missed signs of prescription drug crackdown's effect on Washington Post

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Baltimore, merchants seek relief for a beleaguered Lexington Market – Baltimore Sun

Baltimore, merchants seek relief for a beleaguered Lexington Market
Baltimore Sun
Up and down the sidewalk they shuffled, hawking a variety of goods — methadone, the anxiety drug Xanax and other prescription medications — in a street code repeated over and over. "Bukes and bars, bukes and bars," one man said rhythmically, slang

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